Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • περὶ δὲ κτημάτων καὶ γάμων αὐτοῦ καὶ τέκνων προσευχόμενοσ, οὐκ αἰσχύνεται τῷ ἀψύχῳ προσλαλῶν καὶ περὶ μὲν ὑγιείασ τὸ ἀσθενὲσ ἐπικαλεῖται, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 13:17)
  • τέθνηκέ σοι παῖσ πρὸσ τάφῳ Πολυξένη σφαγεῖσ’ Ἀχιλλέωσ, δῶρον ἀψύχῳ νεκρῷ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 1:13)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ φιλεῖσθαι φιλητοῦ ἐνέργεια, τὸ δὲ καὶ φιλίασ, καὶ τὸ μὲν ἐν ἐμψύχῳ, τὸ δὲ καὶ ἐν ἀψύχῳ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 64:3)
  • δυνατὸν δὲ καὶ μυγμῷ καὶ στεναγμῷ ψόφον ὅμοιον ἐκβάλλειν ἀγάλματα κατὰ ῥῆξιν ἢ διάστασιν μορίων βιαιοτέραν ἐν βάθει γενομένην ἔναρθρον δὲ φωνὴν καὶ διάλεκτον οὕτω σαφῆ καὶ περιττὴν καὶ ἀρτίστομον ἐν ἀψύχῳ γενέσθαι παντάπασιν ἀμήχανον, εἰ μηδὲ τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τὸν θεὸν ἄνευ σώματοσ ὀργανικοῦ καὶ διηρμοσμένου μέρεσι λογικοῖσ γέγονεν ἠχεῖν καὶ διαλέγεσθαι. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 38 2:1)
  • καὶ ἀψύχῳ ἐνὶ τέχνῃ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 34:1)

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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