Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄξεστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄξεστος ἄξεστη ἄξεστον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ξεστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ce/w

Sense

  1. unhewn, unwrought

Examples

  • οὗ κῶλα κάμψον τοῦδ’ ἐπ’ ἀξέστου πέτρου· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:10)

Derived

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

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