Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄδηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδηλος ἄδηλη ἄδηλον

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

Sense

  1. not seen or known, unknown, obscure
  2. by an unknown hand, secret, to nothing, unseen, unobserved by
  3. it is uncertain, unknown, uncertain
  4. secretly

Examples

  • ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἀλήθειαν ἠγάπησασ, τὰ ἄδηλα καὶ τὰ κρύφια τῆσ σοφίασ σου ἐδήλωσάσ μοι. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 50:8)
  • τὰ γὰρ τοιαῦτα παραινέσεισ μὲν καὶ ὑποθήκασ λέγων οὐκ ἄν τισ ἁμαρτάνοι, μαντικῆσ δὲ πάμπολυ ἀποδεῖν μοι δοκεῖ, ἧσ τὸ ἔργον τὰ ἄδηλα καὶ οὐδαμῆ οὐδαμῶσ φανερὰ προγιγνώσκειν, ὥσπερ τὸ τῷ Μίνωϊ προειπεῖν ὅτι ἐν τῷ τοῦ μέλιτοσ πίθῳ ὁ παῖσ ἔσται αὐτῷ ἀποπεπνιγμένοσ, καὶ τὸ τοῖσ Ἀχαιοῖσ προμηνῦσαι τῆσ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ὀργῆσ τὴν αἰτίαν καὶ τῷ δεκάτῳ ἔτει ἁλώσεσθαι τὸ Ἴλιον· (Lucian, 13:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὅμοιον τὸ πᾶσι προφανὲσ ἐπαινέσαι καὶ τὰ ἄδηλα ἐμφανίσαι τῷ λόγῳ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 12:3)
  • ᾧ δὴ καὶ μείζων ἡ τοῦ παρασίτου τέχνη, ἥ γε καὶ τὰ οὕτωσ ἄδηλα καὶ ἀφανῆ μᾶλλον τῆσ μαντικῆσ γνωρίζει τε καὶ οἶδεν. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 4:10)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἔτι τῶν παλαιῶν γνωρισμάτων αὐτοῖσ παρέμενεν, ἀλλ’ ὅμοια τὰ ὀστᾶ ἦν, ἄδηλα καὶ ἀνεπίγραφα καὶ ὑπ’ οὐδενὸσ ἔτι διακρίνεσθαι δυνάμενα. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 15:6)

Synonyms

  1. not seen or known

  2. it is uncertain

  3. secretly

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Derived

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

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