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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

  • ἤτοι τὸν Λητώ τε καὶ Ἄρτεμισ ἰοχέαιρα ἐν μεγάλῳ ἀδύτῳ ἀκέοντό τε κύδαινόν τε· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 48:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐδόθη, τὰ χρήματα ἐξ Ἐλαιοῦντοσ ἐσ Σηστὸν ἐξεφόρησε, καὶ τὸ τέμενοσ ἔσπειρε καὶ ἐνέμετο, αὐτόσ τε ὅκωσ ἀπίκοιτο ἐσ Ἐλαιοῦντα ἐν τῷ ἀδύτῳ γυναιξὶ ἐμίσγετο. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 116 4:6)
  • ταύτησ τῆσ Κασσοτίδοσ δύεσθαί τε κατὰ τῆσ γῆσ λέγουσι τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ ἐν τῷ ἀδύτῳ τοῦ θεοῦ τὰσ γυναῖκασ μαντικὰσ ποιεῖν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 14:3)
  • καὶ ταύτην ἐν τῷ ἀδύτῳ κατατίθησιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 172:2)

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