ἀκίν-ητος (akinetos)

Where it lives

De Mundo 8 · 12.62/10k
De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 2 · 10.88/10k
Against the Sophists 1 · 7.55/10k
Metaphysics 51 · 6.5/10k
Minos 1 · 3.51/10k
To Nicocles 1 · 3.32/10k
The Erotic Essay 1 · 2.73/10k
Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
Timaeus 6 · 2.54/10k
Sophist 4 · 2.5/10k
On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 1 · 2.06/10k

Densest 12 of 41 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀκίν-ητος · akin-ētos — LSJ

unmoved, motionless, without stirring, fixed

unmoved, motionless, Parm. 8, Emp. 17, etc.; of Delos, Orac. ap. Hdt. 6.98, cf. Pi. P. 4.57; ἐξ ἀκινήτου ποδός without stirring a step, S. Tr. 875; τὰς κινήσεις ἀκίνητος Pl. Ti. 40b; τὸ πρῶτον κινοῦν ἀκίνητον αὐτό Arist. Metaph. 1012b31; ὕλη ἀ. Stoic. ap. Plu. Stoic.rep. 2.1054a; ἄστρα ἀ. fixed stars, Poll. 4.156.

2 idle, sluggish, idleness, on graves, sluggish, untilled

idle, sluggish, ἐπʼ ἀκινήτοισι καθίζειν to sit in idleness, Hes. Op. 750 (where others, to sit on graves, v. infr. II.2); ἀ. φρένες a sluggish soul, Ar. Ra. 899; of the Boeotians, Alex. 237; χώρα ἀ. untilled, Plu. Aud. 2.38c.

3 unmoved, unaltered

unmoved, unaltered, ἀ. νόμιμα Th. 1.71, etc.; τοὺς νόμους ἐᾶν ἀ. Arist. Pol. 1269a9, cf. Pl. Lg. 736d, cf. X. Lac. 14.1.

II immovable, hard to move

immovable, hard to move, Pl. Sph. 249a, Luc. Im. 1 (in Comp.). Adv. -τως, ἔχειν Isoc. 13.12, cf. Pl. Euthphr. 11d.

b realty

of property, realty, Olymp.Hist. p.458 D., Cod.Just. 1.11.10.1, al.

2 not to be stirred, inviolate, that must be kept secret

not to be stirred, inviolate, τάφος Hdt. 1.187: esp. prov. of sacred things, κινεῖν τὰ ἀκίνητα Id. 6.134, cf. Pl. Tht. 181a:—hence, that must be kept secret, τἀκίνητʼ ἔπη S. OC 624; τἀκίνητα φράσαι Id. Ant. 1060.

3 not to be shaken, steadfast

of persons, etc., not to be shaken, steadfast, ib. 1027; νοῦς ἀκίνητος πειθοῖ Pl. Ti. 51e; ἕξις ἀ. ὑπὸ φόβου Id. Def. 412a; πρὸς τὸ θεῖον Plu. Superst. 2.165b.

4 unalterable

unalterable, κοινότητες Phld. Sign. 25.

5 inseparable from

c. gen., inseparable from, PMag.Berol. 1.80,165.

III

Adv. -τως, v. supr. ΙΙ.1.

In the wild

ἀκίνητοι · akinētoi Aristophanes, Frogs 898–899
ἀκίνητοι · akinētoi Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 157)
ἀκίνητα · akinēta Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 58)
ἀκινήτοις · akinētois Aristotle, De Interpretatione (DIORISIS sentence 212)
ἀκίνητος · akinētos Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 45)
ἀκινήτοις · akinētois Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 5)

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Where it came from

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