Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀεικής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀεικής ἀεικές

Structure: ἀεικη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)/kw

Sense

  1. unseemly, shameful, inconvenience
  2. unseemly, shabby
  3. it is, strange

Examples

  • τύπτε δ’ ἐπιστροφάδην, τῶν δὲ στόνοσ ὤρνυτ’ ἀεικήσ . (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 515)
  • οὔ τοι ἀεικὴσ γαμβρὸσ ἐν ἀθανάτοισ Πολυσημάντωρ Αἰδωνεύσ, αὐτοκασίγνητοσ καὶ ὁμόσποροσ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 10:9)
  • οὔ τοι ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν ἀεικὴσ ἔσσομ’ ἀκοίτησ, αὐτοκασίγνητοσ πατρὸσ Διόσ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 39:2)
  • "τὸν δ’ αὐτίκα νοῦσοσ ἀεικήσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 9:9)
  • εἰσί μοι ὀφθαλμοί τε καὶ οὐάτα καὶ πόδεσ ἄμφω καὶ νόοσ ἐν στήθεσσι τετυγμένοσ οὐδὲν ἀεικήσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 61:3)

Synonyms

  1. unseemly

  2. it is

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

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