Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄγονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγονος ἄγονη ἄγονον

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

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. unborn, not yet born
  2. not producing, unfruitful, barren, without issue, bringing no children to the birth
  3. not productive of, barren in
  4. childless

Examples

  • καὶ τῶν γλυκέων δέ φησιν ὑδάτων ἔνια ἄγονα ἢ οὐ πολύγονα, ὡσ τὸ ἐν Φέτᾳ καὶ τὸ ἐν Πύρρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 15 2:3)
  • "ὅσα δὲ μή, ἄγονα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 269)
  • τὰ γὰρ δένδρα ἄρχεται τότε τελειότητοσ, ὅταν ἄρχηται γεννᾶν τὰ, σπέρματα, ἀτελῆ δ’ ἐστὶν ἄγονα καὶ ἄκαρπα ὄντα· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 1:1)
  • τάχα δ’ ἄν, εἰ θεὸσ ἐθέλοι, κἂν δυοῖν θάτερα βιασαίμεθα περὶ ἐρωτικῶν, ἢ μηδένα τολμᾶν μηδενὸσ ἅπτεσθαι τῶν γενναίων ἅμα καὶ ἐλευθέρων πλὴν γαμετῆσ ἑαυτοῦ γυναικόσ, ἄθυτα δὲ παλλακῶν σπέρματα καὶ νόθα μὴ σπείρειν, μηδὲ ἄγονα ἀρρένων παρὰ φύσιν· (Plato, Laws, book 8 82:3)

Synonyms

  1. not productive of

  2. childless

Related

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

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