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ἔμψυχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμψυχος ἔμψυχον

Structure: ἐμψυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, yuxh/

Sense

  1. having life in one, alive, living
  2. animated

Examples

  • ζῶντα γοῦν ὡσ ἀληθῶσ καὶ ἔμψυχα ὑμῖν τὰ ἔργα, καὶ νὴ Δία καὶ τὸ θερμὸν αὐτῶν ἐστι διάπυρον· (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 2:6)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν ὅλον ἀρχιτέκτων αὐτὸσ ἦν, συνειργάζετο δέ τι καὶ ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ ἐμπνέουσα τὸν πηλὸν καὶ ἔμψυχα ποιοῦσα εἶναι τὰ πλάσματα. (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 7:1)
  • κατὰ Πίνδαρον ἀλλ’ ἐνεργὰ βούλεται ποιεῖν ὧν ἂν ἅψηται καὶ πρακτικὰ καὶ ἔμψυχα καὶ· (Plutarch, Maxime cum principbus philosopho esse diserendum, chapter, section 1 6:1)
  • καὶ ταῦτα τὰ πλείστην δύναμιν ἔχοντα ἐν τῷ λόγῳ καὶ ὅσην τὰ ἔμψυχα καὶ κινούμενα παρὰ τὰ ἐναντίωσ ἔχοντα. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 2:3)
  • τοσούτουσ ἐκέκτητο καὶ τοιούτουσ, ἀναγνώστασ, ὑπογραφεῖσ, ἀργυρογνώμονασ, διοικητάσ, τραπεζοκόμουσ, αὐτὸσ ἐπιστατῶν μανθάνουσι καὶ προσέχων καὶ διδάσκων καὶ ὅλωσ νομίζων τῷ δεσπότῃ προσήκειν μάλιστα τὴν περὶ τοὺσ οἰκέτασ ἐπιμέλειαν ὡσ ὄργανα ἔμψυχα τῆσ οἰκονομικῆσ. (Plutarch, chapter 2 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. having life in one

  2. animated

Related

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

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