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νοητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νοητός νοητή νοητόν

Structure: νοητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: noe/w

Sense

  1. perceptible to the mind, thinkable

Examples

  • "ὡσ,δὲ γεωμέτραι παισὶν οὔπω δυναμένοισ ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν τὰ νοητὰ μυηθῆναι τῆσ ἀσωμάτου καὶ ἀπαθοῦσ οὐσίασ εἴδη πλάττοντεσ ἁπτὰ καὶ ὁρατὰ μιμήματα σφαιρῶν, ,καὶκύβων καὶ δωδεκαέδρων προτείνουσιν· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 19 3:18)
  • διαφέρειν κατὰ τὸν Πλάτωνα παραδείγματα καὶ ἰδέασ τὰ νοητὰ τῶν αἰσθητῶν ὥσπερ εἰκόνων ἢ ἐμφάσεων ὑποτιθέμενον. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 3, section 1 5:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἄρχει τὰ νοητὰ τῶν σωματικῶν, ἀρχῆσ δὲ πάσησ πλέον τὸ ἐξ αὐτῆσ καὶ μεῖζον. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 3, section 1 14:1)
  • καὶ ἡ μὲν αἴσθησισ μοναχῶσ ψευδοποιεῖται κατὰ,τὰ νοητά, ἡ δὲ φαντασία διχῶσ καὶ γὰρ αἰσθητῶν ἔστι φαντασία καὶ νοητῶν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 2:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ περιέχον πάντα ὁπόσα νοητὰ ζῷα μεθ’ ἑτέρου δεύτερον οὐκ ἄν ποτ’ εἰή· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 85:3)

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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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