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ἀδιόρθωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδιόρθωτος ἀδιόρθωτη ἀδιόρθωτον

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

Etym.: diorqo/w, cf. diorqwth/s.

Sense

  1. not corrected, not set right, unrevised

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

  • καὶ ἀμύνεσθαι μέχρι θανάτου μᾶλλον ἢ ἑκόντασ ἐνδέξασθαι δουλείαν ἄνωθεν ἀδιόρθωτον· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 13 2:6)
  • τὸν μὲν γὰρ ἴσωσ καὶ σωφρονῆσαι δέει κολάσεωσ τὴν ἐπὶ τοῖσ παρῳχηκόσι συγγνώμην αἰδούμενον, ἀδιόρθωτον δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ τοῖσ παραναλωθεῖσι τιμωρίαν εἶναι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 136:1)
  • ὥστ’ οὐδ’ ἐκεῖνο εὖ λέγει τό "ἐπειδὴ οὐκ ἔχομεν λέγειν οὔθ’ ἡμέρασ μεγίστησ πρὸσ τὴν βραχυτάτην λόγον οὔτε γνώμονοσ "πρὸσ σκιὰν ἐπὶ τῇ παρωρείᾳ τῇ ἀπὸ Κιλικίασ μέχρι "Ἰνδῶν, οὐδ’ εἰ ἐπὶ παραλλήλου γραμμῆσ ἐστιν ἡ λόξωσισ ἔχομεν εἰπεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἐᾶν ἀδιόρθωτον, λοξὴν φυλάξαντεσ, ὡσ οἱ ἀρχαῖοι πίνακεσ παρέχουσι. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 20:4)

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

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