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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

  • οἱ δὲ Ἀπόλλωνόσ τε καὶ ἑκάστου τῶν θεῶν οὕτω κατὰ τὸν θεὸν ἰόντεσ ζητοῦσι τὸν σφέτερον παῖδα πεφυκέναι, καὶ ὅταν κτήσωνται, μιμούμενοι αὐτοί τε καὶ τὰ παιδικὰ πείθοντεσ καὶ ῥυθμίζοντεσ εἰσ τὸ ἐκείνου ἐπιτήδευμα καὶ ἰδέαν ἄγουσιν, ὅση ἑκάστῳ δύναμισ, οὐ φθόνῳ οὐδ’ ἀνελευθέρῳ δυσμενείᾳ χρώμενοι πρὸσ τὰ παιδικά, ἀλλ’ εἰσ ὁμοιότητα αὑτοῖσ καὶ τῷ θεῷ ὃν ἂν τιμῶσι πᾶσαν πάντωσ ὅτι μάλιστα πειρώμενοι ἄγειν οὕτω ποιοῦσι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 181:3)
  • δειλῇ δὴ καὶ ἀνελευθέρῳ φύσει φιλοσοφίασ ἀληθινῆσ, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, οὐκ ἂν μετείη. (Plato, Republic, book 6 63:1)

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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