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ἀδιάφθορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδιάφθορος ἀδιάφθορᾱ ἀδιάφθορον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + διαφθορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: diafqei/rw

Sense

  1. uncorrupted
  2. incorruptible
  3. imperishable

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • ὥσπερ δὲ παραινῶ τῆσ παιδείασ τῶν τέκνων μηδὲν ποιεῖσθαι προὐργιαίτερον, οὕτωσ αὖ πάλιν φημὶ δεῖν τῆσ ἀδιαφθόρου καὶ ὑγιαινούσησ ἔχεσθαι, τῶν δὲ πανηγυρικῶν λήρων ὡσ πορρωτάτω τοὺσ υἱεῖσ ἀπάγειν. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 91)
  • ἐγὼ δέ σοι λέγω, ὅτι τῶν πολιτευομένων παρὰ τοῖσ Ἕλλησι διαφθαρέντων ἁπάντων, ἀρξαμένων ἀπὸ σοῦ, πρότερον μὲν ὑπὸ Φιλίππου, νῦν δ’ ὑπ’ Ἀλεξάνδρου, ἔμ’ οὔτε καιρὸσ οὔτε φιλανθρωπία λόγων οὔτ’ ἐπαγγελιῶν μέγεθοσ οὔτ’ ἐλπὶσ οὔτε φόβοσ οὔτ’ ἄλλ’ οὐδὲν ἐπῆρεν οὐδὲ προηγάγετο ὧν ἔκρινα δικαίων καὶ συμφερόντων τῇ πατρίδι οὐδὲν προδοῦναι, οὐδ’, ὅσα συμβεβούλευκα πώποτε τουτοισί, ὁμοίωσ ὑμῖν ὥσπερ ἂν τρυτάνη ῥέπων ἐπὶ τὸ λῆμμα συμβεβούλευκα, ἀλλ’ ἀπ’ ὀρθῆσ καὶ δικαίασ καὶ ἀδιαφθόρου τῆσ ψυχῆσ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 420:3)

Synonyms

  1. uncorrupted

  2. incorruptible

  3. imperishable

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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