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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ληπτέος ληπτέα ληπτέον
Genitive ληπτέου ληπτέας ληπτέου
Dative ληπτέῳ ληπτέᾳ ληπτέῳ
Accusative ληπτέον ληπτέαν ληπτέον
Vocative ληπτέε ληπτέα ληπτέον
DualN/A/V ληπτέω ληπτέα ληπτέω
G/D ληπτέοιν ληπτέαιν ληπτέοιν
PluralNominative ληπτέοι ληπτέαι ληπτέα
Genitive ληπτέων ληπτεῶν ληπτέων
Dative ληπτέοις ληπτέαις ληπτέοις
Accusative ληπτέους ληπτέας 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 ὁρ´ος 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

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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