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ἄδειπνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδειπνος ἄδειπνη ἄδειπνον

Structure: ἀδειπν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dei=pnon

Sense

  1. supperless

Examples

  • καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ εἰσ τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ἄδειπνοσ, καὶ ἐδέσματα οὐκ εἰσήνεγκαν αὐτῷ καὶ ὁ ὕπνοσ ἀπέστη ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἔκλεισεν ὁ Θεὸσ τὰ στόματα τῶν λεόντων, καὶ οὐ παρηνώχλησαν τῷ Δανιήλ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 6:18)
  • ἅπερ εἰ μὴ ἐνεγέγραπτο ἐπιμελῶσ τῇ ἱστορίᾳ, μεγάλα ἂν ἡμεῖσ ἠγνοηκότεσ ἦμεν, καὶ ἡ ζημία Ῥωμαίοισ ἀφόρητοσ, εἰ Μαυσάκασ ὁ Μαῦροσ διψῶν μὴ εὑρ͂ε πιεῖν, ἀλλ̓ ἄδειπνοσ ἐπανῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 28 1:3)
  • τὰ πόλλ’ ἄδειπνοσ περιπατεῖ, κεστρῖνόσ ἐστι νῆστισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 41 3:2)
  • Χαιρεφῶν οὕτωσ μεμάθηκε κωμάζειν ἄδειπνοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 42 3:8)
  • ἐντὸσ πυλῶν γὰρ ἂν μένων ἄδειπνοσ ἦν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 77 5:2)

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

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