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ἄβατος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄβατος ἄβατη ἄβατον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + βατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bai/nw

Sense

  1. untrodden, impassable, inaccessible, not fordable
  2. not to be trodden, pure, chaste
  3. not ridden
  4. that hinders walking

Examples

  • "ἐγὼ ἤκουσα, ἐλάφου δὲ θηλείασ ἔτι παρθένου καὶ ἀβάτου· (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 7:3)
  • ἢ κύκλῳ περιίασιν, ὥσπερ χαλεπῆσ καὶ ἀβάτου τῆσ ἐγγὺσ ἡμῖν θαλάττησ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 59:1)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ τοῦ προσαγορευομένου Μακάρα ποταμοῦ διείργοντοσ κατά τινασ τόπουσ παραπλησίωσ τὴν ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν τοῖσ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἔξοδον καὶ διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ τοῦ ῥεύματοσ ἀβάτου κατὰ τὸ πλεῖστον ὑπάρχοντοσ, μιᾶσ δ’ οὔσησ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ γεφύρασ, καὶ ταύτην τηρεῖν τὴν δίοδον ἀσφαλῶσ, πόλιν ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ ᾠκοδομηκότασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 75 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. untrodden

  2. not to be trodden

  3. not ridden

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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