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βιώσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βιώσιμος βιώσιμη βιώσιμον

Structure: βιωσιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bio/w

Sense

  1. to be lived, worth living, meet, live

Examples

  • ὣσ δὲ καὶ οἱ ἔχιδναί τε καὶ οἱ ἐν Ἀραβίοισι ὑπόπτεροι ὄφιεσ εἰ ἐγίνοντο ὡσ ἡ φύσισ αὐτοῖσι ὑπάρχει, οὐκ ἂν ἦν βιώσιμα ἀνθρώποισι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 109 2:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἡμῖν βιώσιμα τούτου κολασθέντοσ, οἷσ γε πρὸσ τὸν πατέρα μὴ ἔξεστιν ἀνασωθῆναι μόνοισ, ἀλλ’ ἐνθάδε δεῖ κοινωνῆσαι τούτῳ τῆσ αὐτῆσ καταστροφῆσ τοῦ βίου. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 190:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be lived

Related

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

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