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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

  • ψυχραὶ μὲν γὰρ ἦσαν αἱ αὖραι, ὡσ λέγει καὶ Ὅμηροσ, οὐχ ἱκαναὶ δὲ τοῖσ ταχυναυτεῖν βουλομένοισ. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 3 4:1)
  • ἱκαναὶ γὰρ αἱ ἀποκεκληρωμέναι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 14:7)
  • εὖ λέγεισ, καὶ ὡρίσθωσαν ὁπόσαι ἱκαναί. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 11:7)
  • ἔτι δὲ αἱ μὲν ῥᾳδιουργίαι καὶ ἐκ τοῦ παραχρῆμα ἡδοναὶ οὔτε σώματι εὐεξίαν ἱκαναί εἰσιν ἐνεργάζεσθαι, ὥσ φασιν οἱ γυμνασταί, οὔτε ψυχῇ ἐπιστήμην ἀξιόλογον οὐδεμίαν ἐμποιοῦσιν, αἱ δὲ διὰ καρτερίασ ἐπιμέλειαι τῶν καλῶν τε κἀγαθῶν ἔργων ἐξικνεῖσθαι ποιοῦσιν, ὥσ φασιν οἱ ἀγαθοὶ ἄνδρεσ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 21:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅπερ ἐγὼ λέγω, καὶ εἰσ τὰσ σαυτοῦ τέχνασ βλέψασ ‐ ἱκαναὶ δέ ‐ καὶ εἰσ τὰσ τῶν ἄλλων εἰπέ μοι, ἐάν που εὑρ́ῃσ ἐκ τῶν ὡμολογημένων ἐμοί τε καὶ σοί, ὅπου ἐστὶν ὁ μὲν ἀληθήσ, ὁ δὲ ψευδήσ, χωρὶσ καὶ οὐχ ὁ αὐτόσ; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 35:1)

Synonyms

  1. satisfactory

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