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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

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)
  • ὀχετοῦ κινοῦσαι καὶ σφοδρῶσ σείουσαι τὰσ τῆσ ψυχῆσ περιόδουσ, τὴν μὲν ταὐτοῦ παντάπασιν ἐπέδησαν ἐναντία αὐτῇ ῥέουσαι καὶ ἐπέσχον ἄρχουσαν καὶ ἰοῦσαν, τὴν δ’ αὖ θατέρου διέσεισαν, ὥστε τὰσ τοῦ διπλασίου καὶ τριπλασίου τρεῖσ ἑκατέρασ ἀποστάσεισ καὶ τὰσ τῶν ἡμιολίων καὶ ἐπιτρίτων καὶ ἐπογδόων μεσότητασ καὶ συνδέσεισ, ἐπειδὴ παντελῶσ λυταὶ οὐκ ἦσαν πλὴν ὑπὸ τοῦ συνδήσαντοσ, πάσασ μὲν στρέψαι στροφάσ, πάσασ δὲ κλάσεισ καὶ διαφθορὰσ τῶν κύκλων ἐμποιεῖν, ὁσαχῇπερ ἦν δυνατόν, ὥστε μετ’ ἀλλήλων μόγισ συνεχομένασ φέρεσθαι μέν, ἀλόγωσ δὲ φέρεσθαι, τοτὲ μὲν ἀντίασ, ἄλλοτε δὲ πλαγίασ, τοτὲ δὲ ὑπτίασ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 164:1)
  • τὼ δ’ αὖ κατὰ ταὐτὰ μὲν ταῦτα ἐκ συμμείξεωσ ὕδατοσ ἀπομονουμένω πολλοῦ, λεπτοτέρων δὲ ἐκ γῆσ μερῶν ἁλμυρώ τε ὄντε, ἡμιπαγῆ γενομένω καὶ λυτὼ πάλιν ὑφ’ ὕδατοσ, τὸ μὲν ἐλαίου καὶ γῆσ καθαρτικὸν γένοσ λίτρον, τὸ δ’ εὐάρμοστον ἐν ταῖσ κοινωνίαισ ταῖσ περὶ τὴν τοῦ στόματοσ αἴσθησιν ἁλῶν κατὰ λόγον νόμου θεοφιλὲσ σῶμα ἐγένετο. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 278:2)

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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