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

  • "τὸ γὰρ ἀναίτιον ὅλωσ ἀνύπαρκτον εἶναι καὶ τὸ αὐτόματον ἐν δὲ ταῖσ πλαττομέναισ ὑπ’ ἐνίων καὶ λεγομέναισ ταύταισ ἐπελεύσεσιν αἰτίασ ἀδήλουσ ὑποτρέχειν καὶ λανθάνειν ἡμᾶσ ἐπὶ θάτερα τὴν ὁρμὴν ἀγούσασ. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 23 2:3)
  • εἰσ δὲ τὴν τῶν περιττωμάτων κάθαρσιν οὐδὲν ὅλωσ εὑρὼν εἰπεῖν οὐκ ὤκνησεν ὁμόσε χωρῆσαι τοῖσ φαινομένοισ, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆσ τῶν οὔρων διακρίσεωσ ἀποστερήσασ μὲν τῶν τε νεφρῶν καὶ τῶν οὐρητήρων τὴν ἐνέργειαν, ἀδήλουσ δέ τινασ πόρουσ εἰσ τὴν κύστιν ὑποθέμενοσ· (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1345)
  • κατιδὼν δὲ πεφραγμένον ἵππῳ τοσαύτῃ τῶν πολεμίων τὸ εὐώνυμον, καὶ φοβηθεὶσ τὴν λαμπρότητα τοῦ ὁπλισμοῦ, μετεπέμψατο σπείρασ ἓξ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπιταγμάτων καὶ κατέστησεν ὄπισθεν τοῦ δεκάτου, κελεύσασ ἡσυχίαν ἄγειν ἀδήλουσ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ ὄντασ· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 69 2:1)
  • ὁρῶμεν δὴ κατὰ γραμμὰσ ἢ κατ’ εὐθείασ ἢ κατὰ καμπύλασ ἢ κατ’ ἀνακλωμένασ, γραμμὰσ ἀδήλουσ λόγῳ θεωρητὰσ καὶ ἀσωμάτουσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 2:6)
  • τοὺσ δὲ πείσαντασ οὕτωσ αὐτῶν τὰσ ψυχὰσ διαφθείρειν, ὥστ’ οἰκειοτέρασ αὑτοῖσ ποιεῖν τὰσ ἀλλοτρίασ γυναῖκασ ἢ τοῖσ ἀνδράσι, καὶ πᾶσαν ἐπ’ ἐκείνοισ τὴν οἰκίαν γεγονέναι, καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ ἀδήλουσ εἶναι ὁποτέρων τυγχάνουσιν ὄντεσ, τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἢ τῶν μοιχῶν. (Lysias, Speeches, 42:1)

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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