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ἀνάλογος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνάλογος ἀνάλογη ἀνάλογον

Structure: ἀναλογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. proportionate, in proportion, analogously

Examples

  • ὕψη πρὸσ τούτοισ ἀνάλογα καὶ πλάτη τοῖσ μήκεσι σύμμετρα καὶ πανταχοῦ πολλὴ χάρισ καὶ Ἀφροδίτη ἐπανθεῖ· (Lucian, (no name) 7:2)
  • ὥστ’ ἐὰν ἡ τοῦ β τεθῇ δίσ, τέτταρα ἔσται τὰ ἀνάλογα. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 42:1)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ οὖν καὶ κατ’ ἀρχὰσ ἐλέχθη, ταῦτα ἀτάκτωσ ἔχοντα ὁ θεὸσ ἐν ἑκάστῳ τε αὐτῷ πρὸσ αὑτὸ καὶ πρὸσ ἄλληλα συμμετρίασ ἐνεποίησεν, ὅσασ τε καὶ ὅπῃ δυνατὸν ἦν ἀνάλογα καὶ σύμμετρα εἶναι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 337:1)
  • αἱ δ’ ἀνάλογοι φωναὶ τὰ ἀνάλογα οὐ πάντωσ σημαίνουσι πράγματα. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. e'. KLEANQHS 4:4)

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

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