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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

  • ἐὰν δ’ ὑπερβάλλωσι, πρὸσ τῷ κενῷ καὶ ἀβεβαίῳ φορτικὰσ φαινομένασ καὶ θρασείασ οὐδὲ ψυχικὰσ ἄν τισ οὐδὲ χαράσ, ἀλλὰ σωματικὰσ ἡδονὰσ καὶ οἱο͂ν ἐπιμειδιάσεισ καὶ συνεπιθρύψεισ προσείποι τῆσ ψυχῆσ. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 9 2:1)
  • τήν τε ἐμπειρίαν τῶν Μακεδόνων καὶ τὴν τόλμαν ἐν ἀβεβαίῳ χωρίῳ οὐκ ἐθέλειν παραδοῦναι τοῖσ βαρβάροισ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 18 8:1)
  • Ἀβεβαίῳ οὖν τινι θαρρεῖν ἄξιον; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 20:4)

Synonyms

  1. uncertain

  2. unstable

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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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