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ληπτέος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: lēpteos

Principal Part: ληπτέος ληπτέα ληπτέον

Structure: ληπτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: λαμβάνω의 분사형,

Sense

  1. to be taken or accepted
  2. one must take hold, one must undertake, one must take or choose
  3. one must take, receive

Examples

  • ληπτέα οὖν τὰ γένη τῶν διαφορῶν αὗται γὰρ ἀρχαὶ ἔσονται τοῦ εἶναι, οἱο῀ν τὰ τῷ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον ἢ πυκνῷ καὶ μανῷ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις τοῖς τοιούτοις: (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 8 20:4)
  • ἐὰν μὲν γὰρ ἡδέα πρὸς ἡδέα ἱστῇς, τὰ μείζω ἀεὶ καὶ πλείω ληπτέα: (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 385:5)

Synonyms

  1. to be taken or accepted

  2. one must take hold

  3. one must take

Related

명사

형용사

부사

Similar forms

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

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