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ἐλευθέριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλευθέριος ἐλευθέριον

Structure: ἐλευθερι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. speaking or acting like a freeman, free-spirited, frank, liber
  2. freely giving, bountiful, liberal
  3. fit for a freeman, liberal;
  4. free, noble
  5. the Deliverer

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἐλευθέριος ἐλευθέριον
Genitive ἐλευθερίου ἐλευθερίου
Dative ἐλευθερίῳ ἐλευθερίῳ
Accusative ἐλευθέριον ἐλευθέριον
Vocative ἐλευθέριε ἐλευθέριον
DualN/A/V ἐλευθερίω ἐλευθερίω
G/D ἐλευθερίοιν ἐλευθερίοιν
PluralNominative ἐλευθέριοι ἐλευθέρια
Genitive ἐλευθερίων ἐλευθερίων
Dative ἐλευθερίοις ἐλευθερίοις
Accusative ἐλευθερίους ἐλευθέρια
Vocative ἐλευθέριοι ἐλευθέρια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἐλευθέριος ἐλευθερίου ἐλευθεριότερος ἐλευθεριοτέρου ἐλευθεριότατος ἐλευθεριοτάτου
Adverb ἐλευθερίως ἐλευθεριότερον ἐλευθεριότατα

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

  • καὶ αἱ μὲν ἐλευθέριοι καὶ καλαὶ ποιοῦσι τοιαύτασ, αἱ δ’ ἐναντίαι τὰσ ἐναντίασ, ὅθεν καὶ τὸ Κλεοσθένουσ τοῦ Σικυωνίων τυράννου χαρίεν καὶ σημεῖον διανοίασ πεπαιδευμένησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 25 1:4)
  • ἀρετῆσ ἐγγίνεσθαι καὶ ὁμονοίασ τῆσ πρὸσ αὑτήν, πρὸσ τοῦτο συνέταξε καὶ συνήρμοσεν, ὅπωσ ἐλευθέριοι καὶ αὐτάρκεισ γενόμενοι καὶ σωφρονοῦντεσ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον χρόνον διατελῶσι. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 31 1:2)
  • αἱ δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐλευθερίων μόχθων ὀσμαὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων τε πρῶτον χρηστῶν καὶ χρόνου πολλοῦ δέονται, εἰ μέλλουσιν ἡδεῖαί τε καὶ ἐλευθέριοι ἔσεσθαι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 2 5:4)
  • καὶ ἐλευθέριοι δὲ λέγονται οἱ διδόντεσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 9:3)
  • φιλοῦνται δὲ σχεδὸν μάλιστα οἱ ἐλευθέριοι τῶν ἀπ’ ἀρετῆσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 10:2)
  • ἔνιοι γὰρ ἐν τοῖσ πολεμικοῖσ κινδύνοισ δειλοὶ ὄντεσ ἐλευθέριοί εἰσι καὶ πρὸσ χρημάτων ἀποβολὴν εὐθαρσῶσ ἔχουσιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 89:1)

Synonyms

  1. freely giving

  2. fit for a freeman

  3. free

  4. the Deliverer

Related

Similar forms

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

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