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ἰάσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰάσιμος ἰάσιμον

Structure: ἰασιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: i)a/omai

Sense

  1. to be cured, curable, appeasable

Examples

  • οὐ μικρὸν δὲ πρὸσ εὐθυμίαν ὄφελοσ, ἂν ἰάσιμον ᾖ τὸ χεῖρον, καὶ κουφότερον καὶ ἄσφυκτον ὄν. (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 1 1:3)
  • οὐ μικρὸν δὲ πρὸσ εὐθυμίαν ὄφελοσ, ἂν ἰάσιμον τὸ χεῖρον καὶ κουφότερον καὶ ἄσφυκτον. (Plutarch, Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores, section 1 5:2)
  • ἰάσιμον γὰρ τὸ πάθοσ ἐστί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 30 1:11)
  • καὶ τυχὸν οὐκ ἐσ ἀτιμίαν τὴν Ἀντιπάτρου ἡ μετάπεμψισ αὐτοῦ ἔφερεν, ἀλλ̓ ὡσ μή τι ἐκ τῆσ διαφορᾶσ αὐτοῖσ γένοιτο ἄχαρι ἐσ ἀλλήλουσ καὶ οὐδὲ αὐτῷ ἰάσιμον. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 12 6:1)
  • ἐὰν ὄφλῃ τισ, πρῶτον μὲν τίνειν τοῦ βλάβουσ τὴν διπλασίαν, ἂν τὸ τραῦμα ἰάσιμον ἀποβῇ, τῶν δὲ ἀνιάτων τὴν τετραπλασίαν· (Plato, Laws, book 9 164:1)
  • παρελθὼν οὖν ἄκλητοσ οὐκ εὐθὺσ ἰασάμην οὐ γὰρ οὕτω ποιεῖν ἔθοσ ἐστὶν ἡμῖν οὐδὲ ταῦτα ἡ τέχνη παραινεῖ, ἀλλὰ πάντων πρῶτον τοῦτο διδασκόμεθα συνορᾶν εἴτε ἰάσιμόν ἐστι τὸ νόσημα εἴτε ἀνήκεστον καὶ ὑπερβεβηκὸσ τοὺσ ὁρ́ουσ τῆσ τέχνησ. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 4:5)

Synonyms

  1. to be cured

Related

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

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