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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

  • οἱ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἀπολιπόμενοι ταραχθέντεσ ἐξεπήδησαν, ἄδηλον τιθέμενοι τὸ γινόμενον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 1:17)
  • οὕτω γὰρ μετὰ πικρίασ ἀνοίκτου ψυχῆσ ὑπὸ τῶν κατὰ πόλιν στρατηγῶν ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐξαπεστέλλοντο, ὥστε ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἐξάλλοισ τιμωρίαισ καί τινασ τῶν ἐχθρῶν λαμβάνοντασ πρὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὸν κοινὸν ἔλεον καὶ λογιζομένουσ τὴν ἄδηλον τοῦ βίου καταστροφήν, δακρύειν αὐτῶν τὴν τρισάθλιον ἐξαποστολήν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:4)
  • ὅπωσ μὲν ταῦτα χωρήσει, ἄδηλον, ὦ Ἀφροδίτη· (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 15:8)
  • τῆσ γὰρ ἐμπορίασ οὐκ οὔσησ, οὐδὲ ἐπιμιγνύντεσ ἀδεῶσ ἀλλήλοισ οὔτε κατὰ γῆν οὔτε διὰ θαλάσσησ, νεμόμενοί τε τὰ αὑτῶν ἕκαστοι ὅσον ἀποζῆν καὶ περιουσίαν χρημάτων οὐκ ἔχοντεσ, οὔτε γῆν φυτεύοντεσ, ἄδηλον ὂν πότε τισ ἐπελθὼν καὶ ἅμ’ ἀτειχίστων ὄντων ἄλλοσ ἀφαιρήσεται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 15 1:2)
  • οὐκ ἄδηλον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 10 3:3)

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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