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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

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative έ̓μψυχος έ̓μψυχον
Genitive ἐμψύχου ἐμψύχου
Dative ἐμψύχῳ ἐμψύχῳ
Accusative έ̓μψυχον έ̓μψυχον
Vocative έ̓μψυχε έ̓μψυχον
DualN/A/V ἐμψύχω ἐμψύχω
G/D ἐμψύχοιν ἐμψύχοιν
PluralNominative έ̓μψυχοι έ̓μψυχα
Genitive ἐμψύχων ἐμψύχων
Dative ἐμψύχοις ἐμψύχοις
Accusative ἐμψύχους έ̓μψυχα
Vocative έ̓μψυχοι έ̓μψυχα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective έ̓μψυχος ἐμψύχου ἐμψυχότερος ἐμψυχοτέρου ἐμψυχότατος ἐμψυχοτάτου
Adverb ἐμψύχως ἐμψυχότερον ἐμψυχότατα

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 σὺ γάρ, ὡσ ἐοίκε, μετ’ ἐμοῦ κατὰ τὸν Ἄλεξιν οὐδενὸσ ἐμψύχου μεταλαμβάνεισ, ὅσ φησιν ἐν Ἀτθίδι τάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 361)
  • τὸ ταῦτα διορᾶν ἐστιν ἐμψύχου τέχνησ, οὐ τὸ διανίζειν λοπάδασ οὐδ’ ὄζειν καπνοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 60 6:1)
  • ἐμψύχου γὰρ ποίησισ ἡ γέννησίσ ἐστι· (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 2, section 1 4:3)
  • καὶ ὅλωσ ἀξιοῦν γε μηδὲν ἄψυχον ἐμψύχου μηδ’ ἀναίσθητον αἰσθανομένου κρεῖττον εἶναι, μηδ’ ἂν τὸν σύμπαντά τισ χρυσὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ σμάραγδον εἰσ ταὐτὸ συμφορήσῃ. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 76 2:2)
  • ἆρ’ ἔτ’ ἐμψύχου, τέκνα, κιχήσεταί μου καὶ κατορθοῦντοσ φρένα; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 26)

Synonyms

  1. having life in one

  2. animated

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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