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αὐθαίρετος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐθαίρετος αὐθαίρετη αὐθαίρετον

Structure: αὐθαιρετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. self-chosen, self-elected
  2. by free choice, of oneself, independent
  3. taken upon oneself, self-incurred, voluntary

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

  • "γορεύων ἡττᾶται τῆσ αὑτοῦ μαλακίασ, δεῖ γὰρ τὸν αὐθαίρετον θάνατον οὐ φυγὴν εἶναι πράξεων, ἀλλὰ πρᾶξιν. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 31 2:4)
  • μᾶλλον δὲ μανία τῷ μὲν χρόνῳ ἥττων, τῇ δ’ αἰτίᾳ μείζων, ὅτι τὸ αὐθαίρετον αὐτῇ πρόσεστι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 4 1:1)
  • μᾶλλον δὲ μανία τῷ μὲν χρόνῳ ἥττων, τῇ δ’ αἰτίᾳ μείζων, ὅτι τὸ αὐθαίρετον αὐτῇ πρόσεστι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 4 2:1)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Λάκων μικρὰν γυναῖκα γήμασ ἔφη τὰ ἐλάχιστα δεῖν αἱρεῖσθαι τῶν κακῶν, ἀδελφοῖσ δὲ σωφρόνωσ παραινέσειεν ἄν τισ τὰ οἰκειότατα τῶν κακῶν ὑπομένειν μᾶλλον ἢ πειρᾶσθαι τῶν ἀλλοτρίων τοῦτο γὰρ ἀνέγκλητον ὡσ ἀναγκαῖον, ἐκεῖνο δὲ ψεκτὸν ὡσ αὐθαίρετον. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 8 1:3)
  • τοῦτο γὰρ ἀνέγκλητον ὡσ ἀναγκαῖον, ἐκεῖνο δὲ ψεκτὸν ὡσ αὐθαίρετον. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 8 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. self-chosen

Related

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

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