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ἄψυχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄψυχος ἄψυχη ἄψυχον

Structure: ἀψυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: yuxh/

Sense

  1. lifeless, inanimate
  2. non-animal
  3. spiritless, faint-hearted

Examples

  • καὶ οὐκ ἄψυχοσ οὐδ’ ἀκίνητόσ ἐστι περὶ ταύτην τὴν ἰδέαν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 17 2:2)
  • νάβλασ ἐν ἄρθροισ γραμμάτων οὐκ εὐμελήσ, ᾧ λωτὸσ ἐν πλευροῖσιν ἄψυχοσ παγεὶσ ἔμπνουν ἀνίει μοῦσαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 77 1:4)
  • ἀκοσμία δ’ οὐκ ἀσώματοσ οὐδ’ ἀκίνητοσ οὐδ’ ἄψυχοσ ἀλλ’ ἄμορφον μὲν καὶ ἀσύστατον τὸ σωματικὸν ἔμπληκτον δὲ καὶ ἄλογον τὸ κινητικὸν ἔχουσα τοῦτο δ’ ἦν ἀναρμοστία ψυχῆσ οὐκ ἐχούσησ λόγον. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 5 6:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν ὅτι γε ἄψυχόσ ἐστιν ἡ διάλεκτοσ αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐ παθητικὴ πνεύματόσ τε, οὗ μάλιστα δεῖ τοῖσ ἐναγωνίοισ λόγοισ, ἐλαχίστην ἔχουσα μοῖραν, οἰόμαι μὲν ἔγωγε καὶ χωρὶσ ὑπομνήσεωσ ἅπασιν εἶναι φανερόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 19 4:6)
  • τό τε γὰρ σῶμά ἐστιν ὄργανον σύμφυτον, καὶ τοῦ δεσπότου ὁ δοῦλοσ ὥσπερ μόριον καὶ ὄργανον ἀφαιρετόν, τὸ δ’ ὄργανον ὥσπερ δοῦλοσ ἄψυχοσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 160:5)

Synonyms

  1. lifeless

  2. non-animal

  3. spiritless

Related

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

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