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ἀδαής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: adaēs

Principal Part: ἀδαής ἀδαές

Structure: ἀδαη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Δάω

Sense

  1. unknowing how

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἀδαής ἄδαες
Genitive ἀδαούς ἀδάους
Dative ἀδαεί ἀδάει
Accusative ἀδαή ἄδαες
Vocative ἀδαές ἄδαες
DualN/A/V ἀδαεί ἀδάει
G/D ἀδαοίν ἀδάοιν
PluralNominative ἀδαείς ἀδάη
Genitive ἀδαών ἀδάων
Dative ἀδαέσι(ν) ἀδάεσι(ν)
Accusative ἀδαείς ἀδάη
Vocative ἀδαείς ἀδάη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀδαής ἀδαούς ἀδαέστερος ἀδαεστέρου ἀδαέστατος ἀδαεστάτου
Adverb ἀδαέως ἀδαέστερον ἀδαέστατα

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

  • "τραφεῖσα δ ἐν οἰκίᾳ γεωργῶν πενήτων, οὔτ ἀπὸ τέχνης οὐδὲν οὔτ ἀπ ἄλλης τινὸς ἐμπειρίας καὶ δυνάμεως ἐπιφερομένη κάτεισιν εἰς τὸ χρηστήριον, ἀλλ ὥσπερ ὁ Ξενοφῶν οἰέται δεῖν ἐλάχιστα τὴν νύμφην ἰδοῦσαν ἐλάχιστα δ ἀκούσασαν εἰς ἀνδρὸς βαδίζειν, οὕτως ἄπειρος καὶ ἀδαὴς ὀλίγου δεῖν ἁπάντων καὶ παρθένος ὡς ἀληθῶς τὴν ψυχὴν τῷ θεῷ σύνεστιν. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 2211)
  • Ὕπν ὀδύνας ἀδαής, Ὕπνε δ ἀλγέων, εὐαὲς ἡμῖν ἔλθοις, εὐαίων εὐαίων, ὦναξ: (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, strophe 11)
  • οἰκτρὰ γὰρ βόσκειν, ἀδαὴς δ ἔχειν μυρίον ἄχθος, ὃ ξυνοικεῖ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • Εὔφρων ἐξεποίης οὐκ ἀδαὴς Πάριος. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , mixed meters142)
  • οὐκ ἀδαὴς ἔγραψε Κίμων τάδε: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 841)

Synonyms

  1. unknowing how

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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