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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

  • ληπτέοσ δὴ τρόποσ ὅστισ ἡμῖν ἅμα τά τε δοκοῦντα περὶ τούτων μάλιστα ἀποδώσει, καὶ τὰσ ἀπορίασ λύσει καὶ τὰσ ἐναντιώσεισ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 22:1)
  • ὁ δὲ παιὰν ληπτέοσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 8 5:2)
  • τούτων δὲ ληπτέοσ ὁρ́οσ τισ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 60:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸ τί ἐστιν ἀναγκαῖον ἑκάστῃ πωσ τῶν ἐπιστημῶν εἰδέναι καὶ τούτῳ χρῆσθαι ἀρχῇ, δεῖ μὴ λανθάνειν πῶσ ὁριστέον τῷ φυσικῷ καὶ πῶσ ὁ τῆσ οὐσίασ λόγοσ ληπτέοσ, πότερον ὡσ τὸ σιμὸν ἢ μᾶλλον ὡσ τὸ κοῖλον. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 11 105:3)

Synonyms

  1. to be taken or accepted

  2. one must take hold

  3. one must take

Related

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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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