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ἄβιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄβιος ἄβιη ἄβιον

Structure: ἀβι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without a living, starving
  2. simple in life

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓βιος ἄβίᾱ ά̓βιον
Genitive ἀβίου ἄβίᾱς ἀβίου
Dative ἀβίῳ ἄβίᾱͅ ἀβίῳ
Accusative ά̓βιον ἄβίᾱν ά̓βιον
Vocative ά̓βιε ἄβίᾱ ά̓βιον
DualN/A/V ἀβίω ἄβίᾱ ἀβίω
G/D ἀβίοιν ἄβίαιν ἀβίοιν
PluralNominative ά̓βιοι ά̓́βιαι ά̓βια
Genitive ἀβίων ἄβιῶν ἀβίων
Dative ἀβίοις ἄβίαις ἀβίοις
Accusative ἀβίους ἄβίᾱς ά̓βια
Vocative ά̓βιοι ά̓́βιαι ά̓βια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓βιος ἀβίου ἀβιώτερος ἀβιωτέρου ἀβιώτατος ἀβιωτάτου
Adverb ἀβίως ἀβιώτερον ἀβιώτατα

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

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν Αἰγύπτιοι καὶ οἱ πλησίον Αἰθίοπεσ καὶ Ἄραβεσ οὔθ’ οὕτω τελέωσ ἄβιοι οὔτ’ ἀνήκοοι τῆσ τῶν Ἀτρειδῶν δόξησ, καὶ μάλιστα διὰ τὴν κατόρθωσιν τοῦ Ἰλιακοῦ πολέμου, ὥστ’ ἐλπὶσ ἦν τῆσ ἐξ αὐτῶν ὠφελείασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 64:12)
  • πότερον δ’ οὐδ’ ἱππημολγοὶ ἦσαν οἱ ἐπέκεινα τῶν Μυσῶν καὶ Θρᾳκῶν καὶ Γετῶν, οὐδὲ γαλακτοφάγοι καὶ ἄβιοι; (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 14:8)

Synonyms

  1. without a living

  2. simple in life

Related

Similar forms

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

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