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ἀνελεύθερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνελεύθερος ἀνελεύθερᾱ ἀνελεύθερον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + νελευθερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not fit for a free man
  2. illiberal, servile
  3. niggardly, stingy
  4. meanly

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

  • μηδ’ ἄσωτον, αὐτὸσ ὢν ἀνελεύθεροσ. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 5 4:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐλεύθεροσ οὗτοσ, ὦ Μητρόδωρ, ἐστὶν ἀλλ’ ἀνελεύθεροσ καὶ ἀνάγωγοσ, καὶ οὐδὲ μάστιγοσ ἐλευθέρασ δεόμενοσ, ἀλλὰ τῆσ ἀστραγαλωτῆσ ἐκείνησ, ᾗ τοὺσ Γάλλουσ πλημμελοῦντασ ἐν τοῖσ Μητρῴοισ κολάζουσιν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 33 1:1)
  • ἔτι δ’ ἄσωτοσ ὁ πρὸσ ἅπασαν δαπάνην ὑπερβάλλων, ἀνελεύθεροσ δὲ ὁ πρὸσ ἅπασαν ἐλλείπων· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 61:2)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ κτήσει μὲν πάσῃ μᾶλλον χαίρων ἢ δεῖ, ἀποβολῇ δὲ πάσῃ λυπούμενοσ μᾶλλον ἢ δεῖ ἀνελεύθεροσ, ὁ δ’ ἀμφότερα ἧττον ἢ δεῖ ἄσωτοσ, ὁ δ’ ἄμφω ὡσ δεῖ ἐλευθέριοσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 84:3)
  • ὁ δ’ ἀνελεύθεροσ ἂν εἰή καὶ ἄσωτοσ περὶ τὸν κατὰ συμβεβηκὸσ τρόπον τοῦ χρηματισμοῦ, καὶ γὰρ ἐπὶ τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν χρηματισμοῦ τὴν αὔξησιν διώκει· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 89:1)
  • πολὺ τῆσ Πενίασ πρᾶγμ’ αἴσχιον ζητεῖσ αὐτῷ περιάψαι, εἰ πλούσιοσ ὢν ἀνελεύθερόσ ἐσθ’ οὑτωσὶ καὶ φιλοκερδήσ. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:40)

Synonyms

  1. not fit for a free man

  2. niggardly

  3. meanly

Related

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

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