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ἀγενής?

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: agenēs

Principal Part: ἀγενής ἀγενές

Structure: (Prefix) + γενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. unborn, uncreated
  2. of no family, ignoble, mean, cowardly, vile
  3. with no family, childless

Declension

Third 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

  • ἡμᾶς δὲ τοὺς περὶ τοῦ παντὸς λόγους ποιεῖσθαί πῃ μέλλοντας, ᾗ γέγονεν ἢ καὶ ἀγενές ἐστιν, εἰ μὴ παντάπασι παραλλάττομεν, ἀνάγκη θεούς τε καὶ θεὰς ἐπικαλουμένους εὔχεσθαι πάντα κατὰ νοῦν ἐκείνοις μὲν μάλιστα, ἑπομένως δὲ ἡμῖν εἰπεῖν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 65:2)
  • οὐ μὲν οὖν, ἀλλ ἀγενέστατον, ὡς ἔγωγε καὶ κυβερνήτην ἡγοῦμαι δειλότατον, ὅστις χειμῶνα δεδοικὼς πρὸ τῆς θυέλλης ἐβάπτισεν ἑκὼν τὸ σκάφος. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 442:2)
  • εἰ γὰρ οἱ δι αὐτῶν τῶν ἔργων ἀνήκεστα παθόντες οὐκ ἐγείρονται τοῖς θυμοῖς, ἦπου τοῖς λόγοις προαχθήσονται πρὸς τὴν κατὰ τούτου τιμωρίαν, καὶ ταῦτ ἰδόντες αὐτὸν πολίτην μὲν γεγονότα πονηρότατον, τύραννον δὲ πικρότατον, στρατηγὸν δὲ πάντων ἀγενέστατον· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 69 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. unborn

  2. with no family

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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