Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀφνίδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφνίδιος ἀφνίδιη ἀφνίδιον

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

Etym.: a)/fnw

Sense

  1. unforeseen, sudden

Examples

  • ἀπροσδόκητοσ δ’ αὐτὸν ἀφνίδιοσ μόροσ τοῦ ζῆν ἀπεστέρησεν. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 4:5)

Synonyms

  1. unforeseen

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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