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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

  • διὸ καὶ τὸ μὲν αὐτόματον κοινὸν ἐμψύχων τε καὶ ἀψύχων· (Plutarch, De fato, section 7 16:1)
  • ὅταν δὲ μὴ εἰδῇ τὸν ποιήσαντα, τῷ δράσαντι λαγχάνει, δικάζει δ’ ὁ βασιλεὺσ καὶ οἱ φυλοβασιλεῖσ, καὶ τὰσ τῶν ἀψύχων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 57 4:4)
  • ταῖσ μὲν οὖν ὄρνισι τὰσ ὑπηνεμίουσ λοχείασ καὶ ὠδῖνασ ἀτελῶν τινων καὶ ἀψύχων ὑπολειμμάτων ἀρχὰσ λέγουσιν εἶναι· (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 3 3:2)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ τῶν ζῴων μόνων τοῦτ’ ἂν ἴδοι τισ γιγνόμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀψύχων καὶ γὰρ τὰ τόξα καὶ τὰσ· (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 13 5:3)
  • ὡσ καὶ ὁ σεμνότατοσ Ἀριστοτέλησ τοῦ Φασηλίτου μαθητοῦ, ἡμεῖσ δ’ οὐχὶ καὶ τῶν ἀψύχων τὰ κάλλιστα προκρίνομεν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 20 5:1)

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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