δῠνᾰτ-ός (dunatos)

Where it lives

De Interpretatione 68 · 109.31/10k
Hippias Minor 27 · 61.98/10k
Epinomis 16 · 25.37/10k
Paralipomenon I 24 · 18.06/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 10 · 17.38/10k
Sophonias 2 · 16.89/10k
Titus 1 · 15.43/10k
Timaeus 32 · 13.54/10k
Phaedrus 22 · 13.23/10k
Sophist 21 · 13.11/10k
Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
Metaphysics 92 · 11.72/10k

Densest 12 of 120 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

δῠνᾰτ-ός · dynat-os — LSJ

strong, mighty, the ablest-bodied men, sound in limb, fit for service, powerful

strong, mighty, in body or mind, ὅ τι ἦν αὐτῶν δυνατώτατον the ablest-bodied men, Hdt. 9.31; sound in limb, opp. ἀδύνατος, Lys. 24.12; σῶμα δ. πρός τι X. Oec. 7.23; χερσὶ καὶ ψυχᾷ δ. Pi. N. 9.39; τοῖς σώμασι καὶ ταῖς ψυχαῖς X. Mem. 2.1.19; εἴς τι Pl. Hp.Mi. 366a; κατά τι ib. 366d (Sup.): c. acc., ibid. (Sup.); of ships, fit for service, Th. 7.60; of things, δυνατώτερον ἀδικία δικαιοσύνης Pl. R. 351a; λόγος a powerful argument, Epicur. Ep. 1p.31U.; δ. προτείχισμα Plb. 10.31.8.

2 able, mighty

c. inf., able to do, Hdt. 1.97, etc.; δ. λῦσαι mighty to loose, Pi. O. 10(11).9; λέγειν τε καὶ πράσσειν -ώτατος Th. 1.139, Pl. Prt. 319a; -ώτατοι καὶ τοῖς σώμασιν καὶ τοῖς χρήμασιν λῃτουργεῖν Decr. ap. Arist. Ath. 29.5; ἐᾶν τοὺς δ. ἄρχειν X. Ath. 1.3; ὅσονπερ δ. εἰμι, with inf. omitted, E. Or. 523.

3 powerful, influential, the chief men of rank and influence

of outward power, powerful, influential, S. El. 219; τῶν Ἑλλήνων δυνατώτατοι Hdt. 1.53; οἱ δ. the chief men of rank and influence, Th. 2.65; χρήμασι δ. Id. 1.13, etc., cf. OGI 669.13 (i A. D.).

4 able to produce, productive

able to produce, productive, χώρα -ωτέρα εἰς τὴν καρπῶν ἔκφυσιν Gp. 2.21.5.

5 potential

potential, Arist. Metaph. 1048a27.

II possible, practicable, which are practicable

Pass., of things, possible, οὐ δύνατον γένεσθαι Sapph. Supp. 5.21, cf. Hdt. 9.111, A. Ag. 97 (lyr.), etc.; ὁδὸς δυνατὴ καὶ τοῖς ὑποζυγίοις πορεύεσθαι practicable, X. An. 4.1.24; λόγου δ. κατανοῆσαι Pl. Phd. 90c; βίον τοῖς πλείστοις κοινωνῆσαι δ. Arist. Pol. 1295a30; κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν, quantum fieri possit, Pl. Cra. 422d, D. 3.6, etc.; ἐς τὸ δ. Hdt. 3.24; εἰς ὅσον ἀνθρώπῳ δ. μάλιστα Pl. Phdr. 277a; ἐκ τῶν δυνατῶν X. An. 4.2.23; ἐπὶ τὸ δ. Id. Cyn. 5.8; ἐν δυνατῷ εἶναι BCH 29.172 (Delos, ii B. C.); a

III strongly, powerfully, most ably

Adv. -τῶς strongly, powerfully, εἰπεῖν δ. Aeschin. 2.48: Sup. -ώτατα most ably, Pl. R. 516d.

2 possible

δ. ἔχει it is possible, Hdt. 7.11.

In the wild

δυνατὸν · dynaton Aeschylus, Agamemnon 97–103
δυνατόν · dynaton Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1727)
δυνατὸν · dynaton Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1589)
δυνατόν · dynaton Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 2020)
δυνατὸν · dynaton Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1577)
δυνατὰ · dynata Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 2027)

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