"ἱκανός" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [Ancient Greek]

IPA: /hi.ka.nós/, /i.kaˈnos/, /i.kaˈnos/, /hi.ka.nós/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /(h)i.kaˈnos/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /i.kaˈnos/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /i.kaˈnos/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /i.kaˈnos/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From ἱκνέομαι (hiknéomai, “to be appropriate”) + -νος (-nos). Etymology templates: {{af|grc|ἱκνέομαι|-νος|t1=to be appropriate}} ἱκνέομαι (hiknéomai, “to be appropriate”) + -νος (-nos) Inflection templates: {{grc-adecl|ῐ̔κᾰνός|ή}} Forms: ῐ̔κᾰνός [canonical], hikanós [romanization], ῐ̔κᾰνή [feminine], ῐ̔κᾰνόν [neuter], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ῐ̔κᾰνός [masculine, nominative, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνή [feminine, nominative, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνόν [neuter, nominative, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνώ [dual, masculine, nominative], ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ [dual, feminine, nominative], ῐ̔κᾰνώ [dual, neuter, nominative], ῐ̔κᾰνοί [masculine, nominative, plural], ῐ̔κᾰναί [feminine, nominative, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́ [neuter, nominative, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνοῦ [genitive, masculine, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνῆς [feminine, genitive, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνοῦ [genitive, neuter, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν [dual, genitive, masculine], ῐ̔κᾰναῖν [dual, feminine, genitive], ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν [dual, genitive, neuter], ῐ̔κᾰνῶν [genitive, masculine, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνῶν [feminine, genitive, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνῶν [genitive, neuter, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνῷ [dative, masculine, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνῇ [dative, feminine, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνῷ [dative, neuter, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν [dative, dual, masculine], ῐ̔κᾰναῖν [dative, dual, feminine], ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν [dative, dual, neuter], ῐ̔κᾰνοῖς [dative, masculine, plural], ῐ̔κᾰναῖς [dative, feminine, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνοῖς [dative, neuter, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνόν [accusative, masculine, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνήν [accusative, feminine, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνόν [accusative, neuter, singular], ῐ̔κᾰνώ [accusative, dual, masculine], ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ [accusative, dual, feminine], ῐ̔κᾰνώ [accusative, dual, neuter], ῐ̔κᾰνούς [accusative, masculine, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ς [accusative, feminine, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́ [accusative, neuter, plural], ῐ̔κᾰνέ [masculine, singular, vocative], ῐ̔κᾰνή [feminine, singular, vocative], ῐ̔κᾰνόν [neuter, singular, vocative], ῐ̔κᾰνώ [dual, masculine, vocative], ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ [dual, feminine, vocative], ῐ̔κᾰνώ [dual, neuter, vocative], ῐ̔κᾰνοί [masculine, plural, vocative], ῐ̔κᾰναί [feminine, plural, vocative], ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́ [neuter, plural, vocative], ῐ̔κᾰνῶς [adverbial, feminine, masculine, neuter], ῐ̔κᾰνώτερος [comparative, feminine, masculine, neuter], ῐ̔κᾰνώτᾰτος [feminine, masculine, neuter, superlative]
  1. becoming, befitting, sufficient
    (of persons) competent, strong or skillful enough
    Sense id: en-ἱκανός-grc-adj-YYiBTGlJ Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -νος, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 32 34 34 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -νος: 32 34 34 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 32 33 35
  2. becoming, befitting, sufficient
    (of things) adequate, enough, considerable
    Sense id: en-ἱκανός-grc-adj-QpF1DJfG Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -νος, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 32 34 34 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -νος: 32 34 34 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 32 33 35
  3. becoming, befitting, sufficient
    (of things) adequate, enough, considerable
    satisfactory
    Sense id: en-ἱκανός-grc-adj-qP3VLk9Q Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -νος, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 32 34 34 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -νος: 32 34 34 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 32 33 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ἱκανόω (hikanóō), ῐ̔κᾰνῶς (hikanôs)

Inflected forms

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      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνούς",
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      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ς",
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    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνέ",
      "roman": "hikané",
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          "text": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 15"
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        {
          "text": "436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 38"
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          "text": "408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 554"
        },
        {
          "text": "425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1047"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.77"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 4.9"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 371E"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322B"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.121"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2"
        },
        {
          "text": "415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 996"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 373D"
        },
        {
          "text": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 2.2"
        },
        {
          "text": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 1.6"
        },
        {
          "text": "421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 354"
        },
        {
          "text": "445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Simon 10"
        },
        {
          "text": "4th century BC, Isaeus, Menecles 7"
        }
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        {
          "text": "385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 179B"
        },
        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 369C"
        },
        {
          "text": "200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 32.3.13"
        },
        {
          "text": "3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.50"
        },
        {
          "text": "The Gospel of Mark 15:15"
        },
        {
          "text": "200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 11.25.1"
        },
        {
          "text": "36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 11.40"
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      "ipa": "/i.kaˈnos/"
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      "ipa": "/hi.ka.nós/",
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      "ipa": "/i.kaˈnos/",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i.kaˈnos/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
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    {
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "masculine",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    {
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    {
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      "tags": [
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        "neuter"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνῶν",
      "roman": "hikanôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνῶν",
      "roman": "hikanôn",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνῶν",
      "roman": "hikanôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "neuter",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνῷ",
      "roman": "hikanôi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνῇ",
      "roman": "hikanêi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνῷ",
      "roman": "hikanôi",
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        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνοῖν",
      "roman": "hikanoîn",
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    {
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      "roman": "hikanaîn",
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        "dual",
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    },
    {
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      "roman": "hikanoîn",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "dual",
        "neuter"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνοῖς",
      "roman": "hikanoîs",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "masculine",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰναῖς",
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "feminine",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνοῖς",
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        "neuter",
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    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνόν",
      "roman": "hikanón",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "masculine",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνήν",
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνόν",
      "roman": "hikanón",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνώ",
      "roman": "hikanṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́",
      "roman": "hikanā́",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνώ",
      "roman": "hikanṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνούς",
      "roman": "hikanoús",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́ς",
      "roman": "hikanā́s",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́",
      "roman": "hikaná",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνέ",
      "roman": "hikané",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνή",
      "roman": "hikanḗ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνόν",
      "roman": "hikanón",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνώ",
      "roman": "hikanṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "masculine",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνᾱ́",
      "roman": "hikanā́",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "dual",
        "feminine",
        "vocative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνώ",
      "roman": "hikanṓ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "neuter",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνοί",
      "roman": "hikanoí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰναί",
      "roman": "hikanaí",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνᾰ́",
      "roman": "hikaná",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνῶς",
      "roman": "hikanôs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνώτερος",
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
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    {
      "form": "ῐ̔κᾰνώτᾰτος",
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      "source": "inflection",
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        "superlative"
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        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.45"
        },
        {
          "text": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 15"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.9"
        },
        {
          "text": "445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 42"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.4.12"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 8.4"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 277A"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 875A"
        },
        {
          "text": "200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 25.3.6"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.4"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.15"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 467D"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 2.1"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322C"
        },
        {
          "text": "429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 377"
        },
        {
          "text": "436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 132"
        },
        {
          "text": "436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Helen 38"
        },
        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Lysis 204A"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 327C"
        },
        {
          "text": "125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 20.3"
        },
        {
          "text": "300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ruth 1.21"
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        [
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        [
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          "sufficient"
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        [
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          "competent"
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 554"
        },
        {
          "text": "425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1047"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.77"
        },
        {
          "text": "430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hiero 4.9"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 371E"
        },
        {
          "text": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322B"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.121"
        },
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2"
        },
        {
          "text": "415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 996"
        },
        {
          "text": "380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 373D"
        },
        {
          "text": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 2.2"
        },
        {
          "text": "480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, First Tetralogy 1.6"
        },
        {
          "text": "421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 354"
        },
        {
          "text": "445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Simon 10"
        },
        {
          "text": "4th century BC, Isaeus, Menecles 7"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "becoming, befitting, sufficient",
        "adequate, enough, considerable"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "becoming",
          "becoming"
        ],
        [
          "befitting",
          "befitting"
        ],
        [
          "sufficient",
          "sufficient"
        ],
        [
          "adequate",
          "adequate"
        ],
        [
          "enough",
          "enough"
        ],
        [
          "considerable",
          "considerable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "becoming, befitting, sufficient",
        "(of things) adequate, enough, considerable"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of things"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 179B"
        },
        {
          "text": "400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 369C"
        },
        {
          "text": "200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 32.3.13"
        },
        {
          "text": "3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.50"
        },
        {
          "text": "The Gospel of Mark 15:15"
        },
        {
          "text": "200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 11.25.1"
        },
        {
          "text": "36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 11.40"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "becoming, befitting, sufficient",
        "adequate, enough, considerable",
        "satisfactory"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "becoming",
          "becoming"
        ],
        [
          "befitting",
          "befitting"
        ],
        [
          "sufficient",
          "sufficient"
        ],
        [
          "adequate",
          "adequate"
        ],
        [
          "enough",
          "enough"
        ],
        [
          "considerable",
          "considerable"
        ],
        [
          "satisfactory",
          "satisfactory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "becoming, befitting, sufficient",
        "(of things) adequate, enough, considerable",
        "satisfactory"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of things"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/hi.ka.nós/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i.kaˈnos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i.kaˈnos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hi.ka.nós/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/(h)i.kaˈnos/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i.kaˈnos/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i.kaˈnos/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/i.kaˈnos/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ἱκανός"
}

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