δυνατός

Alternative forms

• δύνατος (dúnatos) – Aeolic

Etymology

From δύναμαι (dúnamai, “to be able”) +‎ -τος (-tos, verbal adjective suffix)

Pronunciation

Adjective

δῠνᾰτός • (dunatós) m (feminine δῠνᾰτή, neuter δῠνᾰτόν); first/second declension

1. strong, mighty
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.31
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension 12
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 7.23
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 9.39
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.19
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 366A
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.60
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 351A
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 10.31.8
   1. (with infinitive) able to do
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.97
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 10.9
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.139
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 319A
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 29.5
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians 1.3
      • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 523
   2. (of outward power) powerful, influential
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 219
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.53
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.65
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.13
   3. able to produce
      • Geoponica 2.21.5
2. (passive, of things) possible, practical
   • 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Papyrus Fragments 5.21
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.111
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 97
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.1.24
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 90C
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1295A.30
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 422D
   • 349 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac 6
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.24
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 277A
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.23
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 5.8
   • 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 997
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 183
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 278
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.5.5
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 13
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.89
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1359B.1
3. (adverbial) strongly, powerfully
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 48
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 516D
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.11
4. (in phrases, such as, κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν, ὅσον δυνατόν) as much as is possible

Further reading

• δυνατός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δυνατός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δυνατός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δυνατός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
• δυνατός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1415 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • able idem, page 2.
  • capable idem, page 111.
  • competent idem, page 151.
  • effective idem, page 262.
  • feasible idem, page 312.
  • grandee idem, page 369.
  • great idem, page 372.
  • influential idem, page 439.
  • mighty idem, page 528.
  • noble idem, page 559.
  • possible idem, page 628.
  • potent idem, page 629.
  • powerful idem, page 630.
  • practicable idem, page 631.
  • strong idem, page 827.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δυνατός (dunatós).

Adjective

δυνατός • (dynatós) m (feminine δυνατή, neuter δυνατό)

1. strong, loud
2. strong, powerful
3. possible, potential