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ἄδηκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδηκτος ἄδηκτη ἄδηκτον

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

Etym.: da/knw

Sense

  1. unbitten, not gnawed or worm eaten

Examples

  • ἄριστον καὶ σκίλλησ ὠμῆσ λεπτοῖσι ἐκτρίβειν· χρὴ δὲ ἀπομάξαντα τῶν μελέων τὸ ἐλαιῶδεσ· ̔ ἄδηκτον γὰρ πᾶν δριμὺ ξὺν λίπαϊ ἢν μὴ φαρμακῶδεσ ̓, ἢ κυπρίνῳ, ἢ γλευκίνῳ, ἢ σικυωνίῳ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 135)
  • τοιγαρῶν καὶ τοῖσι προσθέτοισι εὐώδεα ἐσ τὴν χώρην ἐπιβλητέον τῆσ ὑστέρησ · μύρον ὁκοῖον ἂν ἐῄ προσηνὲσ, ἠδὲ ἄδηκτον τὴν ἁφὴν, νάρδον, ἢ βάκχαρι τὸ Αἰγύπτιον· ἢ τὸ διὰ τῶν φύλλων τοῦ μαλαβάθρου , τοῦ δένδρεοσ τοῦ Ἰνδικοῦ, ἢ κιννάμωμον κοπὲν ξὺν τῶν εὐόσμων τινὶ λίπαϊ· ἐγχρίειν δὲ τάδε τοῖσι γυναικηί̈οισι χώροισι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 316)

Synonyms

  1. unbitten

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

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