ἱκανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἱκνέομαι (hiknéomai, “to be appropriate”) +‎ -νος (-nos).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ῐ̔κᾰνός • (hikanós) m (feminine ῐ̔κᾰνή, neuter ῐ̔κᾰνόν); first/second declension

1. becoming, befitting, sufficient
   1. (of persons) competent, strong or skillful enough
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.45
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 15
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.9
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 42
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.12
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 8.4
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 277A
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 875A
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 25.3.6
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.4
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.15
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 467D
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 2.1
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322C
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 377
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 132
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 38
      • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Lysis 204A
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 327C
      • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 20.3
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ruth 1.21
   2. (of things) adequate, enough, considerable
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 554
      • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1047
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.77
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 4.9
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 371E
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322B
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.121
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2
      • 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 996
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 373D
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 2.2
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 1.6
      • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 354
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Simon 10
      • 4th century BC, Isaeus, Menecles 7
      1. satisfactory
         • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 179B
         • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 369C
         • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 32.3.13
         • 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.50
         • The Gospel of Mark 15:15
         • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 11.25.1
         • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 11.40

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἱκανόω (hikanóō)
• ῐ̔κᾰνῶς (hikanôs)

Descendants

• Coptic: ϩⲓⲕⲁⲛⲟⲥ (hikanos)
• Greek: ικανός (ikanós)

References

• “ἱκανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἱκανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἱκανός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2425 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • able idem, page 2.
  • adequate idem, page 11.
  • capable idem, page 111.
  • competent idem, page 151.
  • enough idem, page 276.
  • equal idem, page 280.
  • fit idem, page 323.
  • qualified idem, page 663.
  • sufficient idem, page 835.