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ἄψυχος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: apsychos

Principal Part: ἄψυχος ἄψυχη ἄψυχον

Structure: ἀψυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ψυχή

Sense

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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἄψυχος ἄψύχη ἄψυχον
Genitive ἀψύχου ἄψύχης ἀψύχου
Dative ἀψύχῳ ἄψύχῃ ἀψύχῳ
Accusative ἄψυχον ἄψύχην ἄψυχον
Vocative ἄψυχε ἄψύχη ἄψυχον
DualN/A/V ἀψύχω ἄψύχα ἀψύχω
G/D ἀψύχοιν ἄψύχαιν ἀψύχοιν
PluralNominative ἄψυχοι ἄψυχαι ἄψυχα
Genitive ἀψύχων ἄψυχῶν ἀψύχων
Dative ἀψύχοις ἄψύχαις ἀψύχοις
Accusative ἀψύχους ἄψύχας ἄψυχα
Vocative ἄψυχοι ἄψυχαι ἄψυχα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἄψυχος ἀψύχου ἀψυχότερος ἀψυχοτέρου ἀψυχότατος ἀψυχοτάτου
Adverb ἀψύχως ἀψυχότερον ἀψυχότατα

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

  • 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)
  • ἀψύχοις γὰρ πεποιθότες εἰδώλοις κακῶς ὀμόσαντες, ἀδικηθῆναι οὐ προσδέχονται. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:29)
  • λέγω δὲ κτήματα μέν, οἱο῀ν καρποῖς καὶ ἐσθῆτι ποία συμφέρει, καὶ τῶν καρπῶν ποία ξηροῖς καὶ ποία ὑγροῖς, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων κτημάτων ποία ἐμψύχοις καὶ ποία ἀψύχοις, καὶ δούλοις καὶ ἐλευθέροις, καὶ γυναιξὶ καὶ ἀνδράσι, καὶ ξένοις καὶ ἀστοῖς. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 42:2)
  • τέθνηκέ σοι παῖς πρὸς τάφῳ Πολυξένη σφαγεῖς Ἀχιλλέως, δῶρον ἀψύχῳ νεκρῷ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 1:13)
  • ὦ τᾶς ἑπταφθόγγου μέλπων κιθάρας ἐνοπάν, ἅτ ἀγραύλοις κέρασιν ἐν ἀψύχοις ἀχεῖ μουσᾶν ὕμνους εὐαχήτους, σοὶ μομφάν, ὦ Λατοῦς παῖ, πρὸς τάνδ αὐγὰν αὐδάσω. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 1:1)
  • 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

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

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