Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀκέραιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκέραιος ἀκέραιη ἀκέραιον

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

Etym.: = the poetic a)kh/ratos

Sense

  1. unmixed, pure in blood
  2. entire, unharmed, unravaged, in full force, inviolate, uncontaminated, guileless, uncontaminated

Examples

  • ζ τῷ τῆσ κακοηθείασ ψευδεῖ παραλογισμῷ παραλογισαμένων τὴν τῶν ἐπικρατούντων ἀκέραιον εὐγνωμοσύνην. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 8:18)
  • ’, ὥσπερ τῶν κενῶν ἀγγείων οὐκ ἂν διαγνοίησ τὸ ἀκέραιον καὶ πεπονηκόσ, ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἐγχέῃσ, φαίνεται τὸ ῥέον οὕτωσ; (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 7 2:2)
  • ἔργον δ’ ἀμεμφὲσ εἰσ ἀρετὴν οὐκ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν οὐδὲ πάθουσ ἀκέραιον ἦθοσ οὐδὲ ἄθικτον αἰσχροῦ βίον· (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 1 1:1)
  • ἀγαθοὶ δ’ ἄνδρεσ ὀνομάζονται καὶ λέγονται μόνον, ὡσ ἱπποκένταυροι καὶ γίγαντεσ καὶ κύκλωπεσ, ἔργον δ’ ἀμεμφὲσ εἰσ ἀρετὴν καὶ ἀκέραιον οὐκ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν οὐδὲ πάθουσ ἀκέραιον ἦθοσ καὶ ἄθικτον αἰσχροῦ βίον ἀλλ’ εἰ καί τι καλὸν ἡ φύσισ αὐτομάτωσ ἐκφέρει, τοῦτο πολλῷ τῷ ἀλλοτρίῳ, καθάπερ ὕλῃ καρπὸσ ἀγρίᾳ καὶ ἀκαθάρτῳ μιγνύμενοσ, ἐξαμαυροῦται. (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 1 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. unmixed

Related

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

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