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κενός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κενός κενή κενόν

Structure: κεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. empty
  2. vain, fruitless
  3. exhausted, void, destitute

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • οὐ γὰρ διετράπην πολυοχλίαν πλήθουσ τοῦ μὴ ἐξαγορεῦσαι ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν. εἰ δὲ καὶ εἴασα ἀδύνατον ἐξελθεῖν θύραν μου κόλπῳ κενῷ, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 31:34)
  • ὡσ δὴ θανόντα σ’ ἐνάλιον κενῷ τάφῳ θάψαι τύραννον τῆσδε γῆσ αἰτήσομαι. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 17:22)
  • "οὐσίασ ἀπείρουσ τὸ πλῆθοσ ἀτόμουσ τε καὶ ἀδιαφθόρουσ, ἔτι δ’ ἀποίουσ καὶ ἀπαθεῖσ ἐν τῷ κενῷ φέρεσθαι διεσπαρμένασ ὅταν δὲ πελάσωσιν ἀλλήλαισ ἢ συμπέσωσιν ἢ περιπλακῶσι, φαίνεσθαι τῶν ἀθροιζομένων τὸ μὲν ὕδωρ τὸ δὲ πῦρ τὸ δὲ φυτὸν τὸ δ’ ἄνθρωπον· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 88)
  • "αἴσθησισ δὲ καὶ ψυχὴ καὶ νοῦσ καὶ φρόνησισ οὐδὲ βουλομένοισ ἐπίνοιαν δίδωσιν ὡσ γένοιτ’ ἂν ἐν κενῷ καὶ ἀτόμοισ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 10 1:12)
  • ἀφθάρτῳ μὲν γὰρ εἶναι καὶ τῷ κενῷ καὶ τοῖσ στοιχείοισ συμβέβηκε, δύναμιν δὲ καὶ σεισμοὶ καὶ κεραυνοὶ καὶ πνευμάτων ὁρμαὶ καὶ ῥευμάτων ἐπιφοραὶ μεγάλην ἔχουσι, δίκησ δὲ καὶ θέμιδοσ οὐδὲν ὅτι μὴ τῷ φρονεῖν καὶ λογίζεσθαι μεταλαγχάνει. (Plutarch, , chapter 6 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. empty

  2. vain

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