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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

  • ζητεῖν οὖν ἐν ἀβεβαίοισ βέβαιόν τι λογιζομένων ἐστὶ περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων οὐκ ὀρθῶσ τροχοῦ γὰρ περιστείχοντοσ ἄλλοθ’ ἡτέρα ἁψὶσ ὕπερθε γίγνετ’ ἄλλοθ’ ἡτέρα. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 5 12:2)
  • "καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐκεῖνοσ ὁ ἀνὴρ ἐκ τῶν τότε τὰ νῦν τεκμαιρόμενοσ, ἐκέλευε τὸ τέλοσ τοῦ βίου σκοπεῖν καὶ μὴ θρασυνόμενον ἀβεβαίοισ ὑπονοίαισ ὑβρίζειν. (Plutarch, , chapter 28 3:4)
  • ζητεῖν οὖν ἐν ἀβεβαίοισ βέβαιόν τι λογιζομένων ἐστὶ περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων οὐκ ὀρθῶσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , <*/b Ia)mbika/>49)

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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