Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀκαιρία

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκαιρία

Etym.: a)/kairos

Sense

  1. unfitness of times: unseasonableness
  2. want of opportunity

Examples

  • πρὸσ δὲ τὸν ἀδολέσχην οὐχ οὕτωσ ἔχομεν, ἀλλὰ πᾶσαν ἔργου χάριν ἡ τῶν λόγων ἀκαιρία διαφθείρει καὶ ἀπόλλυσι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 4 5:2)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τὸν ἀδολέσχην οὐχ οὕτωσ ἔχομεν, ἀλλὰ πᾶσαν ἔργου χάριν ἡ τῶν λόγων ἀκαιρία διαφθείρει καὶ ἀπόλλυσι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 4 14:1)
  • ταραχὴν καὶ διάτασιν τοῦ πνεύματοσ, ἀλύπῳ τε χρῆται τῷ περιττώματι, κἂν ἀκαιρία τισ ἢ χρεία κωλύσῃ τὸν περίπατον, οὐδέν ἐστι πρᾶγμα· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 16 12:2)
  • ἔχει δὲ καὶ κίνδυνον ἡ ἀκαιρία μέγαν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 27 15:1)
  • "καὶ πρὸσ Ἀθηνόδωρον τὸν φιλόσοφον, εἰ φυσικὴ ἡ πρὸσ τὰ ἔκγονα φιλοστοργία ἡ γὰρ ἀκαιρία καὶ τὸ μὴ πρὸσ λόγον ὕβριν ἐμφαίνει καὶ δυσμένειαν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 18:5)

Synonyms

  1. want of opportunity

Related

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

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