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ληπτέος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ληπτέος ληπτέᾱ ληπτέον

Structure: ληπτε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lamba/nw의 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

  • ληπτέον δὴ καὶ τὸ πρέπον τῆσ λέξεωσ παρὰ Λυσίου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 9 1:2)
  • ὥστε καὶ ταύτην τὴν ἀρετὴν ληπτέον παρὰ τοῦ ῥήτοροσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 10 1:3)
  • ληπτέον μᾶλλον. (Aristotle, Parabasis, antepirrheme6)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐ τοῦτο νῦν διελεγκτέον, ἐκεῖνο δ’ ἐκ τούτου ληπτέον, ὅτι συγχωροῦσι καὶ αὐτοὶ τῆσ κρίσεωσ ἕτερον εἶναι τὸ ἄλογον, καθ’ ὅ φασι γίνεσθαι τὸ πάθοσ σφοδρότερον καὶ μεῖζον, ἐρίζοντεσ πρὸσ τοὔνομα καὶ τὸ ῥῆμα, τὰ δὲ πράγματα διδόντεσ τοῖσ διαφέρειν τὸ παθητικὸν καὶ ἄλογον τοῦ λογιζομένου καὶ κρίνοντοσ ἀποφαινομένοισ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 10 4:2)
  • ληπτέον σύμμετρον τροφὴν πρὸ τοῦ πίνειν καὶ μάλιστα τὰσ εἰθισμένασ προπαρατίθεσθαι περιφοράσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 913)

Synonyms

  1. to be taken or accepted

  2. one must take hold

  3. one must take

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

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