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ἀποτμητέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: apotmēteos

Principal Part: ἀποτμητέος ἀποτμητέη ἀποτμητέον

Structure: ἀποτμητε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. one must cut off, a portion of

Examples

  • οὐκοῦν τῆς τῶν πλησίον χώρας ἡμῖν ἀποτμητέον, εἰ μέλλομεν ἱκανὴν ἕξειν νέμειν τε καὶ ἀροῦν, καὶ ἐκείνοις αὖ τῆς ἡμετέρας, ἐὰν καὶ ἐκεῖνοι ἀφῶσιν αὑτοὺς ἐπὶ χρημάτων κτῆσιν ἄπειρον, ὑπερβάντες τὸν τῶν ἀναγκαίων ὁρ´ον· (Plato, Republic, book 2 226:1)

Synonyms

  1. one must cut off

Similar forms

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

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