Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀκάρπωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκάρπωτος ἀκάρπωτη ἀκάρπωτον

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

Etym.: karpo/w

Sense

  1. not made fruitful, without fruit, fruitless, unfulfilled, which yielded no fruit

Examples

  • κἄγωγε χρησμοὺσ τοὺσ ἐμούσ τε καὶ Διὸσ ταρβεῖν κελεύω μηδ’ ἀκαρπώτουσ κτίσαι. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 10:2)

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

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