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ἀβέλτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβέλτερος ἀβέλτερᾱ ἀβέλτερον

Structure: ἀβελτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. good for nothing, silly, stupid, fatuous

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τὸν μὲν οὖν ἀβέλτερον. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 1:29)
  • πλοῦτον δὲ γυναικὸσ αἱρεῖσθαι μὲν πρὸ ἀρετῆσ ἢ γένουσ ἀφιλότιμον κἀνελεύθερον, ἀρετῇ δὲ καὶ γένει προσόντα φεύγειν ἀβέλτερον. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 9 13:1)
  • "ὧν παιδικόν ἐστι κομιδῇ καὶ ἀβέλτερον τὸ πάθοσ· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 302)
  • δαίμονασ δὲ χαίροντασ ἀνθρώπων αἵματι καὶ φόνῳ πιστεύειν μὲν ἴσωσ ἐστὶν ἀβέλτερον, ὄντων δὲ τοιούτων ἀμελητέον ὡσ ἀδυνάτων· (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 21 4:3)
  • ἔτι δ’ οὔτ’ εὐποροῦντα οὔθ’ οὕτωσ ὄντ’ ἀβέλτερον ὥστ’ ἀντὶ δισχιλίων καὶ ἑξακοσίων δραχμῶν τριάκοντα μνᾶσ καὶ ἐννέα ἀποδοῦναι, πρόσ τε τούτοισ, ὅτε ἀποδοῦναί φησιν τὸ χρυσίον τῷ Λάμπιδι, οὔτε τὸν παῖδα παραλαβόντα τὸν ἐμὸν οὔτε τὸν κοινωνὸν ἐπιδημοῦντα ἐν Βοσπόρῳ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 59:1)

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

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