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

  • αἱ γὰρ ἐλπίδεσ ἄδηλοι καὶ μακραί. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 4 6:3)
  • αἱ γὰρ ἐλπίδεσ ἄδηλοι καὶ μακραί. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 4 2:3)
  • "πολλαὶ μὲν γὰρ αἰσθομένησ πλείονεσ δ’ ἄδηλοι τό τε σῶμα καταλαμβάνουσι καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ὑπορρέουσι δυσχέρειαι καὶ κινήσεισ· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 507)
  • ἄδηλοι γὰρ εἰ ἐγγύσ, ὥστε οὐδέποτε φανεροὶ ὅτι πόρρω. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 5 11:4)
  • Ἰσοκράτησ δὲ ψέγει ὅτι τὰσ μὲν τῶν σωμάτων ἀρετὰσ δωρεαῖσ ἐτίμησαν, τοῖσ δ’ εὖ φρονοῦσιν οὐθὲν ἆθλον ἐποίησαν, καὶ ἀπὸ συμβουλῆσ οἱο͂ν ὅτι δεῖ τοὺσ ἀγαθοὺσ τιμᾶν, διὸ καὶ αὐτὸσ Ἀριστείδην ἐπαινεῖ, ἢ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ οἳ μήτε εὐδοκιμοῦσιν μήτε φαῦλοι, ἀλλ’ ὅσοι ἀγαθοὶ ὄντεσ ἄδηλοι, ὥσπερ Ἀλέξανδροσ ὁ Πριάμου· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. not seen or known

  2. it is uncertain

  3. secretly

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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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