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ἀφειδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφειδής ἀφειδές

Structure: ἀφειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fei/domai

Sense

unsparing or lavish of
done without regard to cost or risk
freely, lavishly, sparing no pains, with all zeal
unsparingly, without mercy

Declension

Third declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ἀφειδής	ά̓φειδες
	Genitive	ἀφειδούς	ἀφείδους
	Dative	ἀφειδεί	ἀφείδει
	Accusative	ἀφειδή	ά̓φειδες
	Vocative	ἀφειδές	ά̓φειδες
Dual	N/A/V	ἀφειδεί	ἀφείδει
Dual	G/D	ἀφειδοίν	ἀφείδοιν
Plural	Nominative	ἀφειδείς	ἀφείδη
	Genitive	ἀφειδών	ἀφείδων
	Dative	ἀφειδέσιν*	ἀφείδεσιν*
	Accusative	ἀφειδείς	ἀφείδη
	Vocative	ἀφειδείς	ἀφείδη

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἀφειδής ἀφειδούς	ἀφειδέστερος ἀφειδεστέρου	ἀφειδέστατος ἀφειδεστάτου
Adverb	ἀφειδέως	ἀφειδέστερον	ἀφειδέστατα

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

οἷσ ὁ Λυσίασ μὲν ἥκιστα κέχρηται, Δημοσθένησ δὲ ὁ παρὰ τουτουὶ τὰσ ἀφορμὰσ λαβὼν ἀφειδέστερον, οἱο͂ν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 132)
καὶ γὰρ εἰ μὲν εἰσ χρημάτων δαπάνην ἤ τιν’ ἄλλην θεωρίαν ἱππικῶν ἢ γυμνικῶν ἄθλων ἐτάχθην κοσμῆσαι τὸν τάφον, ὅσῳπερ ἂν προθυμότερον καὶ ἀφειδέστερον ταῦτα παρεσκευάσμην, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον ἂν προσήκοντ’ ἔδοξα πεποιηκέναι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 18:2)
οὓσ δ’ ἂν ἀμελοῦντασ, κολαζόντων ἀφειδέστερον ἢ ὡσ δεσπόται. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 53:6)
καὶ ὁ μὲν συνείσ, οἱᾶ ἐσ τὴν ἀδελφὴν ἐξειργασμένοσ ἔργα ἦν, ἤλαυνε τὸ ἁρ́μα ἀφειδέστερον, προλαβεῖν τῆσ ὁδοῦ σπεύδων πρὶν ἢ πάντασ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν συλλεχθῆναι τοὺσ Ἐπιδαυρίουσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 28 9:1)
ὡσ δὲ ἡμέρα τε ἐπέσχε καὶ ἤδη τοῖσ ἔνδον αἴσθησισ ἐγεγόνει τοῦ κατειληφότοσ κινδύνου, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον αὐτοὺσ ἐσῆλθεν ὑπόνοια ὡσ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι σὺν ὅπλοισ παρέλθοιεν αὐτῶν ἐσ τὴν πόλιν, ὥστε καὶ ὡρ́μησαν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ ἀφειδέστερον διὰ τὸ μῖσοσ τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 4:1)

Synonyms

unsparingly
- ἀνελεήμων (merciless, without mercy)

Similar forms

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

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unsparingly

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