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ἀναγκαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναγκαῖος ἀναγκαῖη ἀναγκαῖον

Structure: ἀναγκαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)na/gkh

Sense

  1. with or by force
  2. constraining, applying force, of constraint, slavery, of slavery, a violent death, the compulsory nature, compulsion
  3. forcible, cogent
  4. constrained, forced, perforce
  5. necessary, it is necessary, necessarily requiring
  6. necessary things, needs, appointed order of things, laws of nature
  7. absolutely necessary, indispensable, barely sufficient, the least, that was absolutely necessary, the least that could be called
  8. connected by necessary ties, related by blood
  9. necessarily, of necessity, perf

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὔτε γὰρ ἀναγκαῖαί τινεσ αὐτῶν οὔτ’ ἐν καιρῷ γενόμεναι, πολὺ δὲ τὸ παιδιῶδεσ ἐμφαίνουσαι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 6 11:2)
  • ἔστι δέ που καὶ μὴ χρώμενον ἔχειν ἱκανῶσ ἀπαλλαγέντα, φυσικαὶ μὲν οὐκ ἀναγκαῖαι δ’ ἐκλήθησαν. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 6 2:1)
  • ὅτι μὲν οὖν ἅπασα λέξισ εἰσ δύο μέρη διαιρεῖται τὰ πρῶτα, εἴσ τε τὴν ἐκλογὴν τῶν ὀνομάτων, ὑφ’ ὧν δηλοῦται τὰ πράγματα, καὶ εἰσ τὴν σύνθεσιν τῶν ἐλαττόνων τε καὶ μειζόνων μορίων, καὶ ὅτι τούτων αὖθισ ἑκάτερον εἰσ ἕτερα μόρια διαιρεῖται, ἡ μὲν ἐκλογὴ τῶν στοιχειωδῶν μορίων ὀνοματικῶν λέγω καὶ ῥηματικῶν καὶ συνδετικῶν εἴσ τε τὴν κυρίαν φράσιν καὶ εἰσ τὴν τροπικήν, ἡ δὲ σύνθεσισ εἴσ τε τὰ κόμματα καὶ τὰ κῶλα καὶ τὰσ περιόδουσ, καὶ ὅτι τούτοισ ἀμφοτέροισ συμβέβηκε λέγω δὴ τοῖσ τε ἁπλοῖσ καὶ ἀτόμοισ ὀνόμασι καὶ τοῖσ ἐκ τούτων συνθέτοισ τὰ καλούμενα σχήματα, καὶ ὅτι τῶν καλουμένων ἀρετῶν αἳ μέν εἰσιν ἀναγκαῖαι καὶ ἐν ἅπασιν ὀφείλουσι παρεῖναι τοῖσ λόγοισ, αἳ δ’ ἐπίθετοι καὶ ὅταν ὑποστῶσιν αἱ πρῶται, τότε τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἰσχὺν λαμβάνουσιν, εἴρηται πολλοῖσ πρότερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 221)
  • ἔστι δ’ οὓσ κύλικα μὲν λαβόντα καὶ πιεῖν ὅσον ἂν ἐθέλῃ καὶ ἀποδοῦναι τὸ λεῖπον, ἐν δὲ τῷ λόγῳ μάλιστα δεῖ τοῦ σοφοῦ τούτου μνημονεύειν ἀποφθέγματοσ ὧν αἱ ἀρχαὶ οὐκ ἀναγκαῖαι, τὰ τέλη ἀναγκαῖαι οὐκ οὖν ἀναγκαῖον ὑποθέσθαι, μᾶλλον δ’ ὑφελέσθαι Δημοκρίτου, ἀτόμουσ εἶναι τῶν ὅλων ἀρχάσ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 819)

Synonyms

  1. with or by force

  2. constrained

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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