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συγγενής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συγγενής συγγενές

Structure: συγγενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. born with, congenital, innate, natural, inborn
  2. of the same family, akin to, related
  3. (substantive) kinsman, relative
  4. (neuter substantive) relationship
  5. (figuratively) akin, of like kind

Examples

  • καὶ ὅτι συγγενέστεροσ αὐτόσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 23 8:6)
  • καὶ γὰρ εἰ μὴ φροντίζων τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τῶν νόμων τὴν τιμὴν ἐχαριζόμην, οὐκ ἂν ἐμαυτῷ παρεὶσ δοῦναι παρέσχον ἑτέρῳ συγγενέστεροσ ὢν ἐμαυτῷ τἀδελφοῦ, καὶ πρὸσ ἐμαυτὸν οἰκειότερον ἢ πρὸσ ἐκεῖνον διακείμενοσ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 36:1)

Synonyms

  1. born with

  2. of the same family

  3. akin

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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