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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

  • λύπη μάλιστά γ’ ἡ διαφθείρουσά με ‐ δεινὴ γὰρ ἡ θεόσ, ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ ἰάσιμοσ. (Euripides, episode, iambic 3:21)
  • ἀποσφαλεὶσ φρενῶν πλανᾷ, κακὸσ δ’ ἰατρὸσ ὥσ τισ ἐσ νόσον πεσὼν ἀθυμεῖσ καὶ σεαυτὸν οὐκ ἔχεισ εὑρεῖν ὁποίοισ φαρμάκοισ ἰάσιμοσ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 4:2)
  • καὶ τοῦτο κατιδὼν ἀπέπεμψεν εἰσ Τάρταρον, ἐπισημηνάμενοσ, ἐάντε ἰάσιμοσ ἐάντε ἀνίατοσ δοκῇ εἶναι· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 483:4)

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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