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ἄδυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδυτος ἄδυτος ἄδυτον

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

Etym.: du/w

Sense

  1. Not to be entered

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

  • ταῦτα γὰρ ἀμέλει ἐν τοῖσ ἀδύτοισ ἀπόκειται γραφέντα πλεῖον ἢ πρὸ ἐτῶν μυρίων. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 14:4)
  • ἀδύτοισ ἐν ἁγνοῖσ σῶμα λάμπονται πυρί; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode3)
  • "κατὰ δὲ τὸν ἀνάπλουν ἔτυχεν ἡμῖν συμπλέων Μεμφίτησ ἀνὴρ τῶν ἱερῶν γραμματέων,^ θαυμάσιοσ τὴν σοφίαν καὶ τὴν παιδείαν πᾶσαν εἰδὼσ τὴν Αἰγύπτιον ἐλέγετο δὲ τρία καὶ εἴκοσιν ἔτη ἐν τοῖσ ἀδύτοισ ὑπόγειοσ ᾠκηκέναι μαγεύειν παιδευόμενοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ Ἴσιδοσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 26:13)
  • κηρύκια σιδηρᾶ καὶ χαλκᾶ καὶ κέραμον Τρωικὸν εἶναι τὰ ἐν τοῖσ ἀδύτοισ τοῖσ ἐν Λαουϊνίῳ κείμενα ἱερά, πυθέσθαι δὲ αὐτὸσ ταῦτα παρὰ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 67 7:2)

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