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ἀσώματος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσώματος ἀσώματη ἀσώματον

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

Etym.: sw=ma

Sense

  1. unembodied, incorporeal

Examples

  • πλὴν ἀλλ’ ἀκούω γε αὐτῶν ἀεὶ κεκραγότων καὶ ἀρετήν τινα καὶ ἰδέασ καὶ φύσιν καὶ ἀσώματα διεξιόντων, ἄγνωστα ἐμοὶ καὶ ξένα ὀνόματα. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 11:8)
  • ὅσ γε ἰδέασ καὶ ἀσώματα καὶ ἀτόμουσ καὶ κενὰ καὶ τοιοῦτόν τινα ὄχλον ὀνομάτων ὁσημέραι παρ’ αὐτῶν ἀκούων ἐναυτίων. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 4:8)
  • μαχομένων γὰρ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ καὶ κεκραγότων οὐδὲ ἐπακούειν ἔστι τῶν εὐχῶν ὥστε ἢ ἐπιβυσάμενον χρὴ τὰ ὦτα καθῆσθαι ἢ ἐπιτριβῆναι πρὸσ αὐτῶν, ἀρετήν τινα καὶ ἀσώματα καὶ λήρουσ μεγάλῃ τῇ φωνῇ συνειρόντων. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 9:5)
  • ὃ δὲ φήσ, ὅτι τὰ κεφάλαια ῥᾴδιον ἀκοῦσαι ἁπάσησ φιλοσοφίασ ἐν ὀλίγῳ μορίῳ ἡμέρασ, οἱο͂ν ἀρχὰσ αὐτῶν καὶ τέλη καὶ τί θεοὺσ οἰόνται εἶναι, τί ψυχήν, καὶ τίνεσ μὲν σώματα πάντα φασί, τίνεσ δὲ καὶ ἀσώματα εἶναι ἀξιοῦσι, καὶ ὅτι οἱ μὲν ἡδονήν, οἱ δὲ τὸ καλὸν ἀγαθὸν καὶ εὔδαιμον τίθενται καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, οὑτωσὶ μὲν ἀκούσαντασ ἀποφήνασθαι ῥᾴδιον καὶ ἔργον οὐδέν· (Lucian, 114:1)
  • Πυθαγόρασ καὶ Ἀριστοτέλησ τὰ μὲν πρῶτα αἴτια ἀσώματα, τὰ δὲ κατὰ μετοχὴν ἢ κατὰ συμβεβηκὸσ τῆσ σωματικῆσ ὑποστάσεωσ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. unembodied

Related

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

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