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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ληπτέος ληπτέᾱ ληπτέον
Genitive ληπτέου ληπτέᾱς ληπτέου
Dative ληπτέῳ ληπτέᾱͅ ληπτέῳ
Accusative ληπτέον ληπτέᾱν ληπτέον
Vocative ληπτέε ληπτέᾱ ληπτέον
DualN/A/V ληπτέω ληπτέᾱ ληπτέω
G/D ληπτέοιν ληπτέαιν ληπτέοιν
PluralNominative ληπτέοι ληπτέαι ληπτέα
Genitive ληπτέων ληπτεῶν ληπτέων
Dative ληπτέοις ληπτέαις ληπτέοις
Accusative ληπτέους ληπτέᾱς ληπτέα
Vocative ληπτέοι ληπτέαι ληπτέα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ληπτέος ληπτέου ληπτεότερος ληπτεοτέρου ληπτεότατος ληπτεοτάτου
Adverb ληπτέως ληπτεότερον ληπτεότατα

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

  • 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)
  • 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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