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ἀγένητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγένητος ἀγένητη ἀγένητον

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

Etym.: gene/sqai

Sense

  1. unborn, uncreated, unoriginated
  2. not done, not having happened

Examples

  • ἡ μὲν οὖν ἐν Φαίδρῳ διάλεκτοσ ὀλίγου δεῖν ἅπασι διὰ στόματόσ ἐστι, τῷ ἀγενήτῳ τὸ ἀνώλεθρον τῷ δ’ αὐτοκινήτῳ πιστουμένη τὸ ἀγένητον αὐτῆσ· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 8 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. unborn

  2. not done

Related

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

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