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ἀδόκητος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδόκητος ἀδόκητη ἀδόκητον

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

Etym.: doke/w

Sense

  1. unexpected, the unexpectedness

Examples

  • πάνυ ἀδόκητον αὐτῷ προσπεσὸν ὠχριᾶν ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐποίησεν, καίτοι ἤδη νεκρικῶσ τὴν χροιὰν ἔχοντι, καὶ νὴ Δία καὶ ὑποτρέμειν, ὥστε κατέπαυσε τὸν λόγον. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 13:7)
  • πονηρὸν μέν ὦ Γλυκέριον, οὐκ ἀδόκητον δέ, ἀλλ̓ εἰωθὸσ γίγνεσθαι ὑφ̓ ἡμῶν τῶν ἑταιρῶν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:8)
  • ἀδόκητον ἔχω σε πρὸσ στέρνοισ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, lyric16)
  • ἀλλὰ κοινὸν γὰρ ἔρχεται κῦμ’ Αἴ̈δα, πέσε δ’ ἀδόκητον ἐν καὶ δοκέοντα· (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 7 9:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἴτε, νεύσατε τὰν ἀδόκητον χάριν· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, epode31)

Synonyms

  1. unexpected

Related

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

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