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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

  • καὶ γὰρ τὰσ γαμετὰσ ὁ καλὸσ ἡμῶν ἑστιάτωρ ἐπαινῶν Ἕρμιππον ἔφη ἐν τοῖσ περὶ Νομοθετῶν ἱστορεῖν ὅτι ἐν Λακεδαίμονι εἰσ οἴκημά τι σκοτεινὸν πᾶσαι ἐνεκλείοντο αἱ κόραι, συνεγκλειομένων καὶ τῶν ἀγάμων νεανίσκων καὶ ἕκαστοσ ἧσ ἐπιλάβοιτο, ταύτην ἀπῆγεν ἄπροικον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 21)
  • λέγεται δὲ καὶ τῶν ἀγάμων ἀδελφῶν ἐκείνων τὴν μὲν ἐπαρωμένην πολλὰ καὶ λοιδοροῦσαν ἐκπιεῖν τὸ φάρμακον, τὴν δὲ Στάτειραν οὔτε δύσφημόν τι φθεγξαμένην οὔτ’ ἀγεννέσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπαινοῦσαν τὸν ἀδελφόν, ὅτι περὶ τοῦ σώματοσ κινδυνεύων οὐκ ἠμέλησεν αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ προὐνόησεν ἐλευθέρασ καὶ ἀνυβρίστουσ ἀποθανεῖν. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 18 6:1)
  • ἀναστᾶσαν οὖν τὴν Λαρεντίαν βαδίζειν, καὶ συντυχεῖν τινι τῶν πλουσίων ἀγάμων δὲ καὶ παρηκμακότων ὄνομα Ταρρουτίῳ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 35 3:1)
  • ἀναστᾶσαν οὖν τὴν Λαρεντίαν βαδίζειν, καὶ συντυχεῖν τινι τῶν πλουσίων, ἀγάμων δὲ καὶ παρηκμακότων, ὄνομα Ταρρουτίῳ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 35 7:1)
  • καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο διαριθμήσασ τὰσ κόρασ ἑξακοσίασ τε καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ τρεῖσ εὑρεθείσασ κατέλεξεν αὖθισ ἐκ τῶν ἀγάμων ἄνδρασ ἰσαρίθμουσ, οἷσ αὐτὰσ συνήρμοττε κατὰ τοὺσ πατρίουσ ἑκάστησ ἐθισμούσ, ἐπὶ κοινωνίᾳ πυρὸσ καὶ ὕδατοσ ἐγγυῶν τοὺσ γάμουσ, ὡσ καὶ μέχρι τῶν καθ’ ἡμᾶσ ἐπιτελοῦνται χρόνων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 30 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. not married

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