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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

  • τῆσ τε ἀναγκαίου τροφῆσ πανταχοῦ ἂν ὁμοίωσ ἐπικρατήσειν οἰόμενοι οὐ χαλεπῶσ ἀνίσταντο εἰ γὰρ τὸ οὐ χαλεπῶσ ἀνίσταντο προσέθηκεν τῇ πρώτῃ περιόδῳ καὶ ἐσχημάτισεν οὕτωσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 15 1:3)
  • εἶτα, ὦ Σόλων σιδηροφορεῖν μὲν οὐδενὸσ ἀναγκαίου ἕνεκα περιττὸν ὑμῖν δοκεῖ, καὶ τῶν ὅπλων φείδεσθε ὡσ μὴ διὰ χειρὸσ ὄντα φθείροιτο, ἀλλὰ φυλάττετε ἀποκείμενα ὡσ χρησόμενοι τότε, τῆσ χρείασ ἐπιστάσησ· (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 35:1)
  • ὡσ ἕψομαί γε τοῦ τ’ ἀναγκαίου χάριν θανεῖν τε χρῄζουσ’· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:4)
  • τίνοσ ἀναγκαίου πέρι; (Euripides, episode, trochees 1:17)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ τὸ μύρον ἀεὶ μὲν εὐφραίνει τὴν ὄσφρησιν πρὸσ δὲ τὰ δυσώδη φάρμακόν ἐστιν, οὕτωσ ἡ ἐπίνοια τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐν τοῖσ κακοῖσ καὶ βοηθήματοσ ἀναγκαίου παρέχεται χρείαν τοῖσ μὴ φεύγουσι τὸ μεμνῆσθαι τῶν χρηστῶν μηδὲ πάντα καὶ πάντωσ μεμφομένοισ τὴν τύχην. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 8 6:1)

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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