Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

θνητός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θνητός θνητή θνητόν

Structure: θνητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qnh/skw

Sense

  1. liable to death, mortal, mortals
  2. befitting mortals, human

Examples

  • ἀφ’ οὗ δὲ ἅπαξ σύ, ὦ Ζεῦ, ἀνέῳξασ τοῖσ τοιούτοισ τὰσ θύρασ καὶ ἐπὶ τὰσ θνητὰσ ἐτράπου, ἅπαντεσ μεμίμηνταί σε, καὶ οὐχ οἱ ἄρρενεσ μόνον, ἀλλ’, ὅπερ αἴσχιστον, καὶ αἱ θήλειαι θεοί τίσ γὰρ οὐκ οἶδεν τὸν Ἀγχίσην καὶ τὸν Τιθωνὸν καὶ τὸν Ἐνδυμίωνα καὶ τὸν Ιἀσίωνα ^ καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ; (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 8:1)
  • βουλομένη δὲ αὐτὸ ἀθάνατον ποιῆσαι, τὰσ νύκτασ εἰσ πῦρ κατετίθει τὸ βρέφοσ καὶ περιῄρει τὰσ θνητὰσ σάρκασ αὐτοῦ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 5 1:7)
  • εἶχε δὲ ἡ ὕδρα ὑπερμέγεθεσ σῶμα, κεφαλὰσ ἔχον ἐννέα, τὰσ μὲν ὀκτὼ θνητάσ, τὴν δὲ μέσην ἀθάνατον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 2:3)
  • Ζεύσ τε γὰρ ὅσων μὲν θνητῶν οὐσῶν μορφῆσ ἠράσθη, συγγενόμενοσ εἰά αὐτὰσ θνητὰσ εἶναι· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 30:1)
  • εἰ μὴ σύ, ὦ Μάρκιε, ἀξιοῖσ τὰσ μὲν τῶν θεῶν ὀργὰσ θνητὰσ εἶναι, τὰσ δὲ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀθανάτουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 50 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. liable to death

  2. befitting mortals

Related

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

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