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ἀκαλλής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκαλλής ἀκαλλές

Structure: ἀκαλλη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ka/llos

Sense

  1. without charms

Examples

  • εἰ δὲ τοῦτο ἐναλλάξειασ, ἀκαλλὲσ τὸ αὐτὸ παρὰ τὴν χρῆσιν γίγνεται. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 11 1:2)
  • καὶ ἐπειδὰν ἀθροίσῃ ἅπαντα ἢ τὰ πλεῖστα, πρῶτα μὲν ὑπόμνημά τι συνυφαινέτω αὐτῶν καὶ σῶμα ποιείτω ἀκαλλὲσ ἔτι καὶ ἀδιάρθρωτον· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 481)

Synonyms

  1. without charms

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

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