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ἱκανός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱκανός ἱκανή ἱκανόν

Structure: ἱκαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: i(/kw, i(ka/nw

Sense

  1. becoming, befitting, sufficient, (of persons) competent, strong or skillful enough
  2. (of things) adequate, enough, considerable
  3. satisfactory

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἱκανός ἱκανή ἱκανόν
Genitive ἱκανοῦ ἱκανῆς ἱκανοῦ
Dative ἱκανῷ ἱκανῇ ἱκανῷ
Accusative ἱκανόν ἱκανήν ἱκανόν
Vocative ἱκανέ ἱκανή ἱκανόν
DualN/A/V ἱκανώ ἱκανᾱ́ ἱκανώ
G/D ἱκανοῖν ἱκαναῖν ἱκανοῖν
PluralNominative ἱκανοί ἱκαναί ἱκανά
Genitive ἱκανῶν ἱκανῶν ἱκανῶν
Dative ἱκανοῖς ἱκαναῖς ἱκανοῖς
Accusative ἱκανούς ἱκανᾱ́ς ἱκανά
Vocative ἱκανοί ἱκαναί ἱκανά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἱκανός ἱκανοῦ ἱκανώτερος ἱκανωτεροῦ ἱκανώτατος ἱκανωτατοῦ
Adverb ἱκανώς ἱκανώτερον ἱκανώτατα

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

  • τούτοισ εἶξεν ὁ ὀλοθρεύων, ταῦτα δὲ ἐφοβήθησαν. ἦν γὰρ μόνη ἡ πεῖρα τῆσ ὀργῆσ ἱκανή. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:25)
  • δοκεῖ τισ αὐτῷ συνοικεῖν Ἰδαία γυνή, ἱκανὴ μέν, ἀγροῖκοσ δὲ καὶ δεινῶσ ὄρειοσ, ἀλλ’ οὐ σφόδρα προσέχειν αὐτῇ ἐοίκε. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 3:9)
  • ὅτι μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἡ θάλαττα ἱκανὴ προκαλέσασθαι καὶ εἰσ ἐπιθυμίαν ἐπισπάσασθαι ἐν γαλήνῃ φανεῖσα, ἴστε, κἂν μὴ εἴπω· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 12:1)
  • ἱκανὴ μὲν ἦν πρόφασισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 109)
  • οὐσία γάρ μοι ἱκανὴ καταλειφθήσεται καὶ τούτων στερηθέντι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 19 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. satisfactory

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