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ἀδέψητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδέψητος ἀδέψητη ἀδέψητον

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

Etym.: de/yw

Sense

  1. untanned

Examples

  • λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὡσ οἱ πρῶτοι τῶν ἐνταῦθα ἀνθρώπων ἦσαν αὐτόχθονεσ, ἐσθῆτα δὲ οὐκ ἐπιστάμενοί πω ὑφαίνεσθαι σκέπην πρὸσ τὸ ῥῖγοσ θηρίων δέρματα ἐποιοῦντο ἀδέψητα, τὸ δασὺ τῶν δερμάτων ἐσ τὸ ἐκτὸσ ὑπὲρ εὐπρεπείασ τρέποντεσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 38 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. untanned

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

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