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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

  • οὐδ’ ἂν ἀκούσαισ, ἔφη, λόγου οὕτω διαθέοντοσ ὅτι διέφθαρται ὁ οἶκοσ, διότι οὐχ ὁμαλῶσ ὁ σπορεὺσ ἔσπειρεν, οὐδ’ ὅτι οὐκ ὀρθῶσ τοὺσ ὄρχουσ ἐφύτευσεν, οὐδ’ ὅτι ἀγνοήσασ τισ τὴν γῆν φέρουσαν ἀμπέλουσ ἐν ἀφόρῳ ἐφύτευσεν, οὐδ’ ὅτι ἠγνόησέ τισ ὅτι ἀγαθόν ἐστι τῷ σπόρῳ νεὸν προεργάζεσθαι, οὐδ’ ὅτι ἠγνόησέ τισ ὡσ ἀγαθόν ἐστι τῇ γῇ κόπρον μιγνύναι· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 20 4:1)

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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