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ἄφορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφορος ἄφορᾱ ἄφορον

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

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. not bearing, barren
  2. causing barrenness, blighting

Examples

  • οἳ μὲν δὴ αὐτῶν ἐρήμουσ τόπουσ οἰκέουσιν ἄδενδρόν τε τὴν χώρην καὶ ἄφορον καρπῶν ἡμέρων ‐ καὶ τούτοισιν ἀπὸ τῶν ἰχθύων ἡ πᾶσα δίαιτα ποιέεται ‐ , ὀλίγοι δὲ αὐτῶν σπείρουσιν ὅσον τῆσ χώρησ, [καὶ τούτῳ κατάπερ ὄψῳ χρέονται πρὸσ τοὺσ ἰχθύασ· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 29 15:1)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἄτιμοσ ἁ τάλαινα βαρύκοτοσ ἐν γᾷ τᾷδε, φεῦ, ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίασ, σταλαγμὸν χθονὶ ἄφορον· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, strophe 12)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἄτιμοσ ἁ τάλαινα βαρύκοτοσ ἐν γᾷ τᾷδε, φεῦ, ἰὸν ἰὸν ἀντιπενθῆ μεθεῖσα καρδίασ, σταλαγμὸν χθονὶ ἄφορον· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • τίσ μ’ ἄφορον λέξει, τὴν φορίμων φύλακα; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4142)
  • Εἰ γὰρ σελήνην τε καθαιρέειν καὶ ἥλιον ἀφανίζειν καὶ χειμῶνά τε καὶ εὐδίην ποιέειν καὶ ὄμβρουσ καὶ αὐχμοὺσ καὶ θάλασσαν ἄφορον καὶ γῆν καὶ τἄλλα τὰ τοιουτότροπα πάντα ὑποδέχονται ἐπίστασθαι, εἴτε καὶ ἐκ τελετέων εἴτε καὶ ἐξ ἄλλησ τινὸσ γνώμησ ἢ μελέτησ φασὶν ταῦτα οἱο͂́ν τ’ εἶναι γενέσθαι οἱ ταῦτ’ ἐπιτηδεύοντεσ, δυσσεβέειν ἔμοιγε δοκέουσι καὶ θεοὺσ οὔτε εἶναι νομίζειν οὔτ’ ἐόντασ ἰσχύειν οὐδὲν οὔτε εἴργεσθαι ἂν οὐδενὸσ τῶν ἐσχάτων, ὧν ποιέοντεσ πῶσ οὐ δεινοὶ αὐτοῖσίν εἰσιν; (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 1.16)

Synonyms

  1. not bearing

Related

Derived

  • φορός (bringing on one's way, forwarding, favourable)

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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