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λυτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυτός λυτή λυτόν

Structure: λυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lu/w

Sense

  1. that may be loosed or dissolved
  2. refutable

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative λυτός λυτή λυτόν
Genitive λυτοῦ λυτῆς λυτοῦ
Dative λυτῷ λυτῇ λυτῷ
Accusative λυτόν λυτήν λυτόν
Vocative λυτέ λυτή λυτόν
DualN/A/V λυτώ λυτᾱ́ λυτώ
G/D λυτοῖν λυταῖν λυτοῖν
PluralNominative λυτοί λυταί λυτά
Genitive λυτῶν λυτῶν λυτῶν
Dative λυτοῖς λυταῖς λυτοῖς
Accusative λυτούς λυτᾱ́ς λυτά
Vocative λυτοί λυταί λυτά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective λυτός λυτοῦ λυτώτερος λυτωτεροῦ λυτώτατος λυτωτατοῦ
Adverb λυτώς λυτώτερον λυτώτατα

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

  • τοῦτο μὲν οὖν σημεῖον, λυτὸν δέ, κἂν ἀληθὲσ ᾖ τὸ εἰρημένον ἀσυλλόγιστον γὰρ, τὸ δέ, οἱο͂ν εἴ τισ εἴπειεν σημεῖον ὅτι νοσεῖ, πυρέττει γάρ, ἢ τέτοκεν, ὅτι γάλα ἔχει, ἀναγκαῖον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 18:2)
  • λυτὸν δὲ καὶ τοῦτο, κἂν ἀληθὲσ ᾖ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 18:6)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν δὴ δεθὲν πᾶν λυτόν, τό γε μὴν καλῶσ ἁρμοσθὲν καὶ ἔχον εὖ λύειν ἐθέλειν κακοῦ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 147:1)

Synonyms

  1. refutable

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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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