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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

  • καὶ ὁ Κηνσωρῖνοσ ἡ̓͂ν γὰρ εἰπεῖν ἱκανώτεροσ τοῦ συνάρχοὐ ἀναστὰσ καὶ τότε, καὶ σκυθρωπάσασ ἐπὶ πολύ, ἔλεξεν ὧδε. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 1:14)
  • τίσ γὰρ ἄν, ἔφασαν, σοῦ γε ἱκανώτεροσ πεῖσαι; (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 16:3)
  • ὥστε ὁ φιλόπονοσ καὶ ἐγκρατὴσ οὐ μόνον βασιλεύειν ἱκανώτερόσ ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἥδιον βιοτεύει πολὺ τῶν ἐναντίων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 94:1)

Synonyms

  1. satisfactory

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