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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

  • χώραν τε γὰρ καλεῖ τὴν ὕλην ὥσπερ ἕδραν ἔστιν ὅτε καὶ ὑποδοχήν, ὂν δὲ τὸ νοητόν, γένεσιν δὲ τοῦ κόσμου μήπω γεγονότοσ οὐδεμίαν ἄλλην ἢ τὴν ἐν μεταβολαῖσ καὶ κινήσεσιν οὐσίαν, τοῦ τυποῦντοσ καὶ τοῦ τυπουμένου μεταξὺ τεταγμένην, διαδιδοῦσαν ἐνταῦθα τὰσ ἐκεῖθεν εἰκόνασ. (Plutarch, Compendium libri de animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 5 1:1)
  • θαυμαζόντων δὲ πολλῶν ἐπιχειρεῖν λέγοντα ὡσ ὃ ἔστιν ἀκοῦσαι τοῦτό ἐστιν ἀκουστὸν καὶ ὃ ἔστιν νοῆσαι τοῦτό ἐστιν νοητὸν ὡσαύτωσ οὖν καὶ ὃ ἔστιν ἰδεῖν τοῦτ’ εἶναι ὀπτὸν ὥστ’ ἐπειδὴ τὸν ἰχθὺν ἦν ἰδεῖν, ὀπτὸν αὐτὸν εἶναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 203)
  • "ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ Πλάτωνοσ καὶ Σωκράτουσ ἔτι πρότεροσ συνεῖδεν, ὡσ ἔχει τι δοξαστὸν ἡ φύσισ, ἔχει δὲ καὶ νοητόν· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 139)
  • "ὁ δ’ ἀναιρεῖ μὲν οὐδετέραν φύσιν, ἑκατέρᾳ δ’ ἀποδιδοὺσ τὸ προσῆκον εἰσ μὲν τὴν τοῦ ἑνὸσ καὶ ὄντοσ ἰδέαν τίθεται τὸ νοητόν, ὂν μὲν ὡσ ἀίδιον καὶ ἄφθαρτον ἓν δ’ ὁμοιότητι πρὸσ αὑτὸ καὶ τῷ μὴ δέχεσθαι διαφορὰν προσαγορεύσασ, εἰσ δὲ τὴν ἄτακτον καὶ φερομένην τὸ αἰσθητόν ὧν καὶ κριτήριον ἰδεῖν ἔστιν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 1312)
  • "ἦν οὖν ὁ περὶ τοῦ ὄντοσ ὡσ ἓν εἰή λόγοσ οὐκ ἀναίρεσισ τῶν πολλῶν καὶ αἰσθητῶν, ἀλλὰ δήλωσισ αὐτῶν τῆσ πρὸσ τὸ νοητὸν διαφορᾶσ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 1317)

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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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