ἀδύνατος

From ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ δυνατός (dunatós, “powerful, capable, possible”).

ᾰ̓δῠ́νᾰτος • (adúnatos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓δῠ́νᾰτον); second declension

1. (of persons) unable
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.138
   • 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 272
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 56
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1379A.2
   • 1 CE – 100 CE, Onasander, Strategikos 1.13
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 483D
   • 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Collected Works 95
   1. (absolute) without strength, powerless, weak
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.9
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 596
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 746
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 49.4
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 103
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 73
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.28
      • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 366B
      • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, Herculaneum Papyri 1457.8
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.16
      • 390 BCE, Plato, Hippias Major 296A
      • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 108
2. (of things) that cannot be done, impossible
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 665
   • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 1043
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 58
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, On the Heavens 280B.12
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 29B.5
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 34B.30
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 45A.35
   • 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Lynceus of Samos, Collected Works 1.12
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.32
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 2.81
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.91
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.106
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.59
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 338C
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.60
   • 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1370
   • 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 811
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 318
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 8
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 192B
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Parmenides 138D
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Philebus 15B
3. (adverbial) without power or skill, feebly
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Third Tetralogy 3.3
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Second Tetralogy 3.4
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Eratosthenes 3
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Plato, Axiochus 364B
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric to Alexander 1435A.16
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Rhetoric 2.122

• Greek: αδύνατος (adýnatos)

• “ἀδύνατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀδύνατος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀδύνατος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀδύνατος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀδύνατος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G102 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.
  • bad idem, page 58.
  • chimerical idem, page 130.
  • disabled idem, page 227.
  • helpless idem, page 396.
  • impossible idem, page 423.
  • impotent idem, page 423.
  • incapable idem, page 427.
  • incapacitated idem, page 427.
  • incompetent idem, page 429.
  • maimed idem, page 508.
  • powerless idem, page 631.
  • unable idem, page 905.
  • unattainable idem, page 907.
  • uninfluential idem, page 922.
  • unskilful idem, page 932.
  • weak idem, page 969.