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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓δηλος ἄδήλη ά̓δηλον
Genitive ἀδήλου ἄδήλης ἀδήλου
Dative ἀδήλῳ ἄδήλῃ ἀδήλῳ
Accusative ά̓δηλον ἄδήλην ά̓δηλον
Vocative ά̓δηλε ἄδήλη ά̓δηλον
DualN/A/V ἀδήλω ἄδήλᾱ ἀδήλω
G/D ἀδήλοιν ἄδήλαιν ἀδήλοιν
PluralNominative ά̓δηλοι ά̓́δηλαι ά̓δηλα
Genitive ἀδήλων ἄδηλῶν ἀδήλων
Dative ἀδήλοις ἄδήλαις ἀδήλοις
Accusative ἀδήλους ἄδήλᾱς ά̓δηλα
Vocative ά̓δηλοι ά̓́δηλαι ά̓δηλα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓δηλος ἀδήλου ἀδηλότερος ἀδηλοτέρου ἀδηλότατος ἀδηλοτάτου
Adverb ἀδήλως ἀδηλότερον ἀδηλότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "οὐ γὰρ δεῖ λανθάνειν τὴν ὑπόνοιαν αὐτῶν, πολλῶν μὲν σαφῶσ τοῦτο λεγόντων οὐκ ὀλίγων δ’ ἀδηλότερον. (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 2 5:4)
  • πάντεσ οὗτοι ξυνᾴδουσιν, ὥσπερ ἑνὸσ ἴχνουσ λαβόμενοι, καὶ τοῦτο σῴζοντεσ, οἱ μὲν σαφῶσ, οἱ δὲ ἀδηλότερον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 62:3)

Synonyms

  1. not seen or known

  2. it is uncertain

  3. secretly

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Derived

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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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