ἀδύνατον (adynaton)

ἀδύνατον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀδύνατος, meaning “unable, impossible”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 964 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.138.4: νοσήσας δὲ τελευτᾷ τὸν βίον· λέγουσι δέ τινες καὶ ἑκούσιον φαρμάκῳ ἀποθανεῖν αὐτόν, ἀδύνατον νομίσαντα εἶναι ἐπιτελέσαι βασιλεῖ ἃ ὑπέσχετο.

Plutarch, Amatorius 21: … νεῖν καὶ γαργαλίζειν τὸν ὄγκον εἰς σπέρμα συνολισθάνοντα τοῖς ἄλλοις σχηματισμοῖς; οὐ δυνατὸν μὲν ἀπὸ παίδων, ἀδυνατὸν δʼ ἀπὸ γυναικῶν; καὶ τὰς καλὰς ταύτας καὶ ἱερὰς ἀναμνήσεις καλοῦμεν ἡμεῖς ἐπὶ τὸ θεῖον καὶ ἀληθινὸν καὶ ὀλύμπ …

New Testament, Hebrews 6.4: Ἀδύνατον γὰρ τοὺς ἅπαξ φωτισθέντας γευσαμένους τε τῆς δωρεᾶς τῆς ἐπουρανίου καὶ μετόχους γενηθέντας πνεύματος ἁγίου

All forms of ἀδύνατος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.