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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative θνητός θνητή θνητόν
Genitive θνητοῦ θνητῆς θνητοῦ
Dative θνητῷ θνητῇ θνητῷ
Accusative θνητόν θνητήν θνητόν
Vocative θνητέ θνητή θνητόν
DualN/A/V θνητώ θνητᾱ́ θνητώ
G/D θνητοῖν θνηταῖν θνητοῖν
PluralNominative θνητοί θνηταί θνητά
Genitive θνητῶν θνητῶν θνητῶν
Dative θνητοῖς θνηταῖς θνητοῖς
Accusative θνητούς θνητᾱ́ς θνητά
Vocative θνητοί θνηταί θνητά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective θνητός θνητοῦ θνητότερος θνητοτεροῦ θνητότατος θνητοτατοῦ
Adverb θνητώς θνητότερον θνητότατα

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

  • θαῦμα δ’ ἔχ’ ἀθανάτουσ τε θεοὺσ θνητούσ τ’ ἀνθρώπουσ, ὡσ εἶδον δόλον αἰπύν, ἀμήχανον ἀνθρώποισιν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 56:3)
  • εἰ γὰρ μὴ νύμφαι γε θεαὶ Βάκιν ἐξαπάτασκον, μηδὲ Βάκισ θνητούσ, μηδ’ αὖ νύμφαι Βάκιν αὐτὸν ‐ ἐξώλησ ἀπόλοι’, εἰ μὴ παύσαιο βακίζων. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, dactyls6)
  • "ὁμολογεῖσ γὰρ εἶναι δαίμονασ, τῷ δὲ μὴ φαύλουσ ἀξιοῦν εἶναι μηδὲ θνητοὺσ οὐκέτι δαίμονασ φυλάττεισ· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 16 2:5)
  • οὔτε γὰρ κάμνειν οὔτε διψᾶν οὔθ’ ὅλωσ θνητοὺσ εἶναι νομίζειν αὑτούσ, ἑώσ ἂν ἔχωσι βασιλέα τοιοῦτον. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 42 6:1)
  • θνητοὺσ δ’ ἐν οἴκτῳ προθέμενοσ, τούτου τυχεῖν οὐκ ἠξιώθην αὐτόσ, ἀλλὰ νηλεῶσ ὧδ’ ἐρρύθμισμαι, Ζηνὶ δυσκλεὴσ θέα. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 2:7)

Synonyms

  1. liable to death

  2. befitting mortals

Related

Similar forms

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

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