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ἀβέβαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβέβαιος ἀβέβαιη ἀβέβαιον

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

Sense

  1. uncertain, unsteady
  2. unstable

Examples

  • γίνεται οὖν ἡ μὲν τῶν φαύλων φιλία μοχθηρά κοινωνοῦσι γὰρ φαύλων ἀβέβαιοι ὄντεσ, καὶ μοχθηροὶ δὲ γίνονται ὁμοιούμενοι ἀλλήλοισ, ἡ δὲ τῶν ἐπιεικῶν ἐπιεικήσ, συναυξανομένη ταῖσ ὁμιλίαισ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 148:2)
  • καὶ τοίνυν τῆσ δεδομένησ ἀτελείασ ἐκπεπτωκότεσ ἂν ἤδη, αὐτοὶ μὲν καὶ οὕτωσ οὐδὲν ἧττον ἔθ’ ἕξουσι ταύτην, ὡσ ἀξιόχρεῳ, ἡμεῖσ δὲ οὐκ ἀγνώμονεσ μόνον ἐντεῦθεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄπιστοί τινεσ καὶ ἀβέβαιοι τοῦ λοιποῦ δόξομεν ἅπασιν εἶναι· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 22:4)

Synonyms

  1. uncertain

  2. unstable

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Derived

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

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