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ἄκαιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκαιρος

Structure: ἀκαιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. ill-timed, unseasonable, inopportune
  2. importunate

Examples

  • φαγὼν δὲ καὶ πιὼν ἀκαιρότερον βόειον ἐθερμάνθη σμικρὰ τὸ πρῶτον, κατεκλίθη. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 400)
  • καὶ διὰ τὸν ἔρωτα δὴ τοῦτον ἀκαιρότερον ὄντα ἢ χρή, ὅταν ἃ βούλονται πράττωσιν, ἔλαθον αὐτοί τε ἀπολέμωσ ἴσχοντεσ καὶ τοὺσ νέουσ ὡσαύτωσ διατιθέντεσ, ὄντεσ τε ἀεὶ τῶν ἐπιτιθεμένων, ἐξ ὧν οὐκ ἐν πολλοῖσ ἔτεσιν αὐτοὶ καὶ παῖδεσ καὶ σύμπασα ἡ πόλισ ἀντ’ ἐλευθέρων πολλάκισ ἔλαθον αὑτοὺσ γενόμενοι δοῦλοι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 305:3)

Synonyms

  1. importunate

Related

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

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