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νητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νητός νητή νητόν

Structure: νητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ne/w4

Sense

  1. heaped, piled up

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

  • μέσην τὰ δὲ δώδεκα κατὰ νήτην τὰ δ’ ἓξ καθ’ ὑπάτην. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 15 9:1)
  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ αὐλῶν ὁ μείζων βαρύτερον φθέγξεται ὡσ ὑπάτη πρὸσ νήτην, τῶν δὲ χορδῶν ἡ τῷ διπλασίῳ κατατεινομένη βάρει τῆσ ἑτέρασ ὀξύτερον ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ ὑπάτην τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ διὰ πασῶν. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 17 6:1)
  • τῶν συμφωνιῶν ἀναλογίαν φυλάσσει, τοῦ μὲν θυμοειδοῦσ πρὸσ τὸ λογιστικὸν ὡσ ὑπάτην τὸ διὰ τεσσάρων, πρὸσ δὲ τὸ ἐπιθυμητικὸν ὡσ νήτην τὸ διὰ πέντε, τοῦ δὲ λογιστικοῦ πρὸσ τὸ ἐπιθυμητικὸν ὡσ ὑπάτη πρὸσ νήτην τὸ διὰ πασῶν. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 1 16:1)
  • τὴν δὲ πρώτην ἔχει καὶ κυριωτάτην δύναμιν ὡσ μέση πρὸσ ὑπάτην μὲν τὸ ἐπιθυμητικόν, νήτην δὲ τὸ θυμοειδέσ, τῷ χαλᾶν καὶ ἐπιτείνειν καὶ ὅλωσ συνῳδὰ καὶ σύμφωνα ποιεῖν ἑκατέρου τὴν ὑπερβολὴν ἀφαιρῶν καὶ πάλιν οὐκ ἐῶν ἀνίεσθαι παντάπασιν οὐδὲ καταδαρθάνειν· (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 2 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. heaped

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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