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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ὥσπερ ἐν μουσικῇ τὸ ἴσον ἀπέχει τῆσ νήτησ καὶ τῆσ ὑπάτησ ἡ μέση, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ ἐν λόγοισ ὁ μέσοσ χαρακτὴρ ἑκατέρου τῶν ἄκρων ἴσον ἀφέστηκεν, ἀλλ’ ἔστι τῶν ἐν πλάτει θεωρουμένων ὡσ ἀγέλη τε καὶ σωρὸσ καὶ ἄλλα πολλά. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 218)
  • περὶ τῶν τῆσ ψυχῆσ δυνάμεων ἐν Πολιτείᾳ Πλάτωνοσ τὴν τοῦ λογιστικοῦ καὶ θυμοειδοῦσ καὶ ἐπιθυμητικοῦ συμφωνίαν ἁρμονίᾳ μέσησ καὶ ὑπάτησ καὶ νήτησ εἰκάσαντοσ; (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 11)
  • τὴν ὑπάτην ὁρῶντασ ἐν μὲν λύρᾳ τὸν ἀνωτάτω καὶ πρῶτον, ἐν δ’ αὐλοῖσ τὸν κάτω καὶ τὸν τελευταῖον ἐπέχουσαν, ἔτι δὲ τὴν μέσην ἐν ᾧ τισ ἂν χωρίῳ τῆσ λύρασ θέμενοσ ὡσαύτωσ ἁρμόσηται, φθεγγομένην ὀξύτερον μὲν ὑπάτησ βαρύτερον δὲ νήτησ. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 2 1:1)
  • ὁ αὐτὸσ δὲ λόγοσ καὶ περὶ τῆσ νήτησ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 19 3:1)
  • ἐκ νήτησ μετέβησ οὕτωσ ταχὺσ εἰσ βαρύχορδον φθόγγον, ἀπ’ ἰσχνοτάτησ εἰσ τάσιν ὀγκοτάτην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1872)

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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