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

  • "ἐπεὶ δὲ τὰ μέγιστα τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἀδηλότατα, καὶ τῆσ μάχησ παρὰ γνώμην κριθείσησ οὐ ῥᾴδιον αὖθισ ἀλλήλουσ ἰδεῖν, τί γινώσκεισ περὶ φυγῆσ καὶ τελευτῆσ; (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 40 3:3)

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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