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ἀγένειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγένειος ἀγένειη ἀγένειον

Structure: ἀγενει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/neion

Sense

  1. beardless, like a boy

Examples

  • "τί γὰρ ἔχθιον ἢ παῖ παῖ καλεῖσθαι παρὰ πότον, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἀγενείῳ μειρακυλλίῳ τινί, ἢ τὴν ἀμίδα φέρειν ὁρᾶν τε κείμενα ἄμητασ ἡμιβρῶτασ ὀρνίθειά τε, ὧν οὐδὲ λειφθέντων θέμισ δούλῳ φαγεῖν, ὥσ φασιν αἱ γυναῖκεσ, ὃ δὲ χολᾶν ποιεῖ, γάστριν καλοῦσι καὶ λάμυρον ὃσ ἂν φάγῃ ἡμῶν τι τούτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:12)

Synonyms

  1. beardless

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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