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ἄγονος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: agonos

Principal Part: ἄγονος ἄγονη ἄγονον

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

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

  • ὁ δὲ Τροιζήνιος οἶνος ἀγόνους, φησί, ποιεῖ τοὺς πίνοντας, ἐν Θάσῳ δὲ λέγει ὡς αὐτοὶ ποιοῦσιν οἶνόν τινα ὑπνωτικὸν καὶ ἕτερον ἀγρυπνεῖν ποιοῦντα τοὺς πίνοντας. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 57 3:2)
  • Διοκλῆς ἀγόνους τοὺς ἄνδρας ἢ παρὰ τὸ μηδ ὅλως ἐνίους σπέρμα προϊέσθαι ἢ παρὰ τὸ ἔλαττον τοῦ δέοντος: (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. not productive of

  2. childless

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

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