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ἄγαμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγαμος ἄγαμος ἄγαμον

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

Sense

  1. not married

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • ἄγαμόν μ’ ἔτι δεῦρ’ ἀεὶ Χρόνοσ παλαιὸσ πατὴρ ὤφελ’ ἁμερᾶν κτίσαι. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ἄγαμοσ ἄτεκνοσ, ὦ πόσι, καταστένει γάμον ἄγαμον <ἐμόν>. (Euripides, Helen, episode, lyric 1:29)
  • "τί γάρ νιν εὐηράτοιο κάλλεοσ ὀξὺσ ἔρωσ ἔτειρεν, ᾇ παρθενίαν ἄγαμον καὶ ἄπαιδ’ ἀπένειμε Κλωθώ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 7 1:4)
  • ἔχων οὖν ὁ Ἀμούλιοσ τὰ χρήματα καὶ πλέον ἀπ’ αὐτῶν δυνάμενοσ τοῦ Νομήτοροσ, τήν τε βασιλείαν ἀφείλετο ῥᾳδίωσ, καὶ φοβούμενοσ ἐκ τῆσ θυγατρὸσ αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι παῖδασ, ἱέρειαν τῆσ Ἑστίασ ἀπέδειξεν, ἄγαμον καὶ παρθένον ἀεὶ βιωσομένην. (Plutarch, chapter 3 2:3)
  • σπέρμα σεμνᾶσ μέγα ματρὸσ εὐνὰσ ἀνδρῶν, ἒ ἔ, ἄγαμον ἀδάματον ἐκφυγεῖν. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, ephymnion 21)

Synonyms

  1. not married

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