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ἄκαυστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκαυστος ἄκαυστη ἄκαυστον

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

Etym.: kai/w

Sense

  1. unburnt

Examples

  • ὧδέ πωσ καὶ ἡ κεκαυμένη τρὺξ τῆσ ἀκαύστου διήνεγκε. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 976)
  • ἐνταῦθα τὴν μὲν ὑστεραίαν ὑπανεχώρουν εἰσ τοὔμπαλιν ἢ πρὸσ Βαβυλῶνα εἰσ τὰσ ἀκαύστουσ κώμασ, κατακαύσαντεσ ἔνθεν ἐξῇσαν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. unburnt

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

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