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ἀκαταφρόνητος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκαταφρόνητος ἀκαταφρόνητη ἀκαταφρόνητον

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

Etym.: katafrone/w

Sense

  1. not to be despised, important

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἡδέωσ δὲ καὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων τὰσ μεταθέσεισ οἱ πατέρεσ προσδέχονται καὶ πιστεύουσι τοῖσ υἱοῖσ ἁπλότητα μὲν τὴν ῥᾳθυμίαν τῶν ἀδελφῶν ὀνομάζουσιν, ὀρθότητα δὲ τὴν σκαιότητα, τὸ δὲ φιλόνεικον ἀκαταφρόνητον· (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 9 2:2)
  • ὥστε ἀκαταφρόνητοσ μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν διετέλεσεν, ἀζήμιοσ δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν πολιτῶν, ἄμεμπτοσ δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν φίλων, πολυεραστότατοσ δὲ καὶ πολυεπαινετώτατοσ ὑπὸ πάντων ἀνθρώπων. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 10:2)
  • ἀλλὰ πρὸσ μὲν τὸν Καίσαρα ἡ συγγένεια ἢ ἄλλον τινὰ τῶν μέγα δυναμένων ἐν Ῥώμῃ ἱκανὴ παρέχειν ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ διάγοντασ καὶ ἀκαταφρονήτουσ καὶ δεδοικότασ μηδ’ ὁτιοῦν, τὸ δὲ τὸν θεὸν ποιητὴν ἔχειν καὶ πατέρα καὶ κηδεμόνα οὐκέτι ἡμᾶσ ἐξαιρήσεται λυπῶν καὶ φόβων; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 7:1)
  • ηὔξησε δ’ οὕτω τὴν βασιλείαν, ὥστε ἀκαταφρόνητον μὲν αὐτὴν ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων εἶναι, τοῖσ δ’ οἰκείοισ εὐδαίμονα. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 9 293:2)

Synonyms

  1. not to be despised

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

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