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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

  • ἓν γὰρ νομίζω τοῦτο τῶν ἀνελευθέρων εἶναι τὸ βαδίζειν ἀρρύθμωσ ἐν ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ, ἐξὸν καλῶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 38 3:1)
  • ὁ μέντοι κυβευτὴσ καὶ ὁ λωποδύτησ καὶ ὁ λῃστὴσ τῶν ἀνελευθέρων εἰσίν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 39:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἐκεῖναί γε ἐξαμάρτοιέν ποτε τοσοῦτον ὥστε ῥήματα ἀνδρῶν ποιήσασαι τὸ χρῶμα γυναικῶν καὶ μέλοσ ἀποδοῦναι, καὶ μέλοσ ἐλευθέρων αὖ καὶ σχήματα συνθεῖσαι ῥυθμοὺσ δούλων καὶ ἀνελευθέρων προσαρμόττειν, οὐδ’ αὖ ῥυθμοὺσ καὶ σχῆμα ἐλευθέριον ὑποθεῖσαι μέλοσ ἢ λόγον ἐναντίον ἀποδοῦναι τοῖσ ῥυθμοῖσ, ἔτι δὲ θηρίων φωνὰσ καὶ ἀνθρώπων καὶ ὀργάνων καὶ πάντασ ψόφουσ εἰσ ταὐτὸν οὐκ ἄν ποτε συνθεῖεν, ὡσ ἕν τι μιμούμεναι· (Plato, Laws, book 2 103:2)
  • χρηματισμὸσ γὰρ οὔτ’ ἔνεστιν σφόδρα ἐν τῇ τοιαύτῃ κατασκευῇ, συνέπεταί τε αὐτῇ μηδὲ δεῖν μηδ’ ἐξεῖναι χρηματίζεσθαι τῶν ἀνελευθέρων χρηματισμῶν μηδενὶ μηδένα, καθ’ ὅσον ἐπονείδιστοσ λεγομένη βαναυσία ἦθοσ ἀποτρέπει ἐλεύθερον, μηδὲ τὸ παράπαν ἀξιοῦν ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων συλλέγειν χρήματα. (Plato, Laws, book 5 108:1)
  • εἰσῆλθεν δή με, οἱο͂ν εἰκόσ, φοβηθῆναι, συννοήσαντα τί τισ χρήσεται τῇ τοιαύτῃ πόλει ἐν ᾗ δὴ νέοι μὲν νέαι τε εὐτρεφεῖσ εἰσί, πόνων δὲ σφοδρῶν καὶ ἀνελευθέρων, οἳ μάλιστα ὕβριν σβεννύασιν, ἀργοί, θυσίαι δὲ καὶ ἑορταὶ καὶ χοροὶ πᾶσιν μέλουσιν διὰ βίου. (Plato, Laws, book 8 47:6)

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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