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κινητής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κινητής κινητές

Structure: κινητη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kine/w

Sense

  1. one that sets agoing, an author

Examples

  • ὕλη δὲ ἡ μὲν αἰσθητή ἐστιν ἡ δὲ νοητή, αἰσθητὴ μὲν οἱο͂ν χαλκὸσ καὶ ξύλον καὶ ὅση κινητὴ ὕλη, νοητὴ δὲ ἡ ἐν τοῖσ αἰσθητοῖσ ὑπάρχουσα μὴ ᾗ αἰσθητά, οἱο͂ν τὰ μαθηματικά. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 162:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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