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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

  • 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)
  • καὶ τοὺσ θεοὺσ τοίνυν ἀβέλτερα ποιεῖν λέγωμεν, ὑπὲρ τῶν Λεύκτρου θυγατέρων βιασθεισῶν μηνίοντασ Λακεδαιμονίοισ καὶ κολάζοντασ Αἰάντα διὰ τὴν Κασάνδρασ ὕβριν· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 11 5:2)
  • εἶναι δέ τινασ οἳ τὸ πρᾶγμα πικρῶσ καὶ δυσμενῶσ ἐξελέγχοντεσ ἐτάραττον τοὺσ πατρικίουσ καὶ διέβαλλον, ὡσ ἀβέλτερα τὸν δῆμον ἀναπείθοντασ, αὐτοὺσ δὲ τοῦ βασιλέωσ αὐτόχειρασ ὄντασ. (Plutarch, chapter 27 8:2)

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

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