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

  • καὶ μηδὲ τῆσ ὀσμῆσ αὐτοῦ δυνάμενοσ ἀνέχεσθαι ταῦτ̓ ἔφη. δίκαιον ὑποτάσσεσθαι τῷ Θεῷ καὶ μὴ θνητὸν ὄντα ἰσόθεα φρονεῖν ὑπερηφάνωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:12)
  • θνητὸν μέντοι εἶναι τοῦτο, εὐμηχανώτατον δ’ ἄλλωσ καὶ συνετώτατον καὶ τοῦ βελτίονοσ αἰσθανόμενον. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 12:5)
  • ᾔδεισ γὰρ θνητὸν πεποιημένοσ τὸν ἐρώμενον· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:2)
  • ὧν οὕνεκ’ εἶδοσ θνητὸν ἀλλάξασ ἔχω μορφήν τ’ ἐμὴν μετέβαλον εἰσ ἀνδρὸσ φύσιν. (Euripides, episode 5:5)
  • τῶν δὲ ἐκεῖ σοφῶν οὐδεὶσ ζηλωτὸσ οὐδὲ μακαριστόσ ἐστιν, ἂν μὴ ζῶν ἔτι καὶ φρονῶν καὶ ὑγιαίνων τοῦ σώματοσ τὴν ψυχὴν πυρὶ διαστήσῃ, καὶ καθαρὸσ ἐκβῇ τῆσ σαρκὸσ ἐκνιψάμενοσ τὸ θνητόν. (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 2:13)

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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