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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

  • ἐπεὶ ὅ γε τοιοῦτοσ δόξειεν ἂν οὐ μικρῷ βελτίων εἶναι τοῦ ἀνελευθέρου. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 25:3)
  • ὁ δὲ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἄσωτοσ πολὺ δοκεῖ βελτίων τοῦ ἀνελευθέρου εἶναι διά τε τὰ εἰρημένα, καὶ ὅτι ὃ μὲν ὠφελεῖ πολλούσ, ὃ δὲ οὐθένα, ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ αὑτόν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 27:2)
  • οὐδ’ εἴ τι ἄλλο τῶν ἀπορρήτων ἤκουσα, οὐκ ἂν ἐπεξῆλθον αὐτῷ ἀνελευθέρου γὰρ καὶ λίαν φιλοδίκου εἶναι νομίζω κακηγορίασ δικάζεσθαι· (Lysias, Speeches, 3:1)
  • ̓τον ὑπὸ τούτων ἐνοχλούμενοσ ἢ χαλεπώτερον ἀνθρώπῳ σπληνὸσ ἀνέχεσθαι οἰδοῦντοσ καὶ διεφθαρμένου ὀδόντοσ ἢ ψυχῆσ ἄφρονοσ καὶ ἀμαθοῦσ καὶ δειλῆσ καὶ θρασείασ καὶ φιληδόνου καὶ ἀνελευθέρου καὶ ὀργίλησ καὶ λυπηρᾶσ καὶ πανούργου καὶ πάντα τρόπον διεφθαρμένησ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 9:3)
  • πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι σμικροτάτῳ χρῆσθαι κατὰ δύναμιν τῷ τῶν καπήλων γένει, ἔπειτα τούτοισ τῶν ἀνθρώπων προστάττειν ὧν διαφθειρομένων οὐκ ἂν γίγνοιτο μεγάλη λύμη τῇ πόλει, τρίτον δὲ αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ μετασχοῦσι τούτων τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων εὑρεῖν μηχανὴν ὅπωσ ἤθη μὴ ἀνέδην ἀναισχυντίασ τε καὶ ἀνελευθέρου ψυχῆσ μέτοχα συμβήσεται γίγνεσθαι ῥᾳδίωσ. (Plato, Laws, book 11 42:1)

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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