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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

  • τά τε γὰρ μαθηματικὰ τῶν πρώτων νοητῶν μεταξὺ καὶ τῶν αἰσθητῶν τετάχθαι· (Plutarch, Compendium libri de animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 3 2:1)
  • δὲ κριτικῷ τῶν νοητῶν. (Plutarch, Compendium libri de animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 4 12:1)
  • "ἀποστρέφει γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν νοητῶν ἐπὶ τὰ αἰσθητὰ τὴν διάνοιαν, χάριτι καὶ λαμπρότητι τῆσ ὄψεωσ γοητεύων καὶ ἀναπείθων ἐν ἑαυτῷ καὶ περὶ αὑτὸν αἰτεῖσθαι τὰ τ’ ἄλλα καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ἑτέρωθι δὲ μηδέν· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 19 3:12)
  • "οὕτωσ ἡμῖν ὁ οὐράνιοσ Ἔρωσ ἔσοπτρα καλῶν καλά, θνητὰ μέντοι θεῶν παθητὰ καὶ νοητῶν αἰσθητὰ μηχανώμενοσ ἔν τε σχήμασι καὶ χρώμασι καὶ εἴδεσι νέων ὡρ́ᾳ στίλβοντα δείκνυσι καὶ κινεῖ τὴν μνήμην ἀτρέμα διὰ τούτων ἀναφλεγομένην τὸ πρῶτον. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 19 3:19)
  • ἔπειτα τί διοίσει τῆσ τοῦ κόσμου γενέσεωσ ἡ τῆσ ψυχῆσ, εἴπερ ἀμφοτέροισ ἔκ τε τῆσ ὕλησ καὶ τῶν νοητῶν γέγονεν ἡ σύστασισ; (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 21 6:1)

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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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