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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

  • Ῥωμύλου δὲ τὴν ἐπώνυμον αὑτοῦ πόλιν οἰκίσαντοσ ἑκκαίδεκα γενεαῖσ τῶν Τρωικῶν ὕστερον, ἣν νῦν ἔχουσιν ὀνομασίαν μεταλαβόντεσ, ἔθνοσ τε μέγιστον ἐξ ἐλαχίστου γενέσθαι σὺν χρόνῳ παρεσκεύασαν καὶ περιφανέστατον ἐξ ἀδηλοτάτου, τῶν τε δεομένων οἰκήσεωσ παρὰ σφίσι φιλανθρώπῳ ὑποδοχῇ καὶ πολιτείασ μεταδόσει τοῖσ μετὰ τοῦ γενναίου ἐν πολέμῳ κρατηθεῖσι, δούλων τε ὅσοι παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἐλευθερωθεῖεν ἀστοῖσ εἶναι συγχωρήσει, τύχησ τε ἀνθρώπων οὐδεμιᾶσ εἰ μέλλοι τὸ κοινὸν ὠφελεῖν ἀπαξιώσει· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 9 6:1)

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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