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ἀβέβαιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: abebaios

Principal Part: ἀβέβαιος ἀβέβαιη ἀβέβαιον

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

Sense

  1. uncertain, unsteady
  2. unstable

Examples

  • "ἔστι δὲ τὸ μὲν δοξαστὸν ἀβέβαιον καὶ πλανητὸν ἐν πάθεσι πολλοῖς καὶ μεταβολαῖς τῷ φθίνειν καὶ αὔξεσθαι καὶ πρὸς ἄλλον ἄλλως ἔχειν καὶ μηδ ἀεὶ πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν ὡσαύτως τῇ αἰσθήσει τοῦ νοητοῦ δ ἕτερον εἶδος, ἔστι γὰρ οὐλομελές τε καὶ ἀτρεμὲς ἠδ ἀγένητον, ὡς αὐτὸς· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 1310)
  • πῦρ οὖν ἐπὶ πῦρ ἐγένετο τῷ νεανίσκῳ προσκείμενος ὁ Τηρίβαζος ἀεὶ καὶ λέγων ὡς οὐδὲν ὀνίνησιν ἡ κίταρις ἑστῶσα περὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ τοὺς ὑφ αὑτῶν μὴ ζητοῦντας ὀρθοῦσθαι τοῖς πράγμασι, κἀκεῖνον ἀβέλτερα φρονεῖν, εἰ, τοῦ μὲν ἀδελφοῦ διὰ τῆς γυναικωνίτιδος ἐνδυομένου τοῖς πράγμασι, τοῦ δὲ πατρὸς οὕτως ἔμπληκτον ἦθος καὶ ἀβέβαιον ἔχοντος, οἰέται βέβαιον αὐτῷ τὴν διαδοχὴν ὑπάρχειν. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 28 1:1)
  • "῾ Ἡμῖν μὲν γὰρ ὄντως τοῦ εἶναι μέτεστιν οὐδέν, ἀλλὰ πᾶσα θνητὴ φύσις ἐν μέσῳ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς γενομένη φάσμα παρέχει καὶ δόκησιν ἀμυδρὰν καὶ ἀβέβαιον αὑτῆς: (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 181)
  • κατηγορεῖται δ Ἀρετὴ μὲν ὡς καλὸν μὲν ἀνωφελὲς δέ, Τύχη δ ὡς ἀβέβαιον μὲν ἀγαθὸν δέ: (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 13)
  • κατηγορεῖται δ Ἀρετὴ μὲν ὡς καλὸν μὲν ἀνωφελὲς δέ, Τύχη δ ὡς ἀβέβαιον μὲν ἀγαθὸν δέ: (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 1 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. uncertain

  2. unstable

Related

명사

형용사

동사

Derived

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

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