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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

  • ἀπὸ δὲ ταύτησ ἀρξάμενοσ καὶ προβὰσ ἐπὶ ποσὸν οὐδ’ ὅλωσ οὐδεὶσ ἂν ἠλλάξατο μονάρχου πρόσχημα καὶ βίον, ἀκεραίῳ χρώμενοσ γνώμῃ. (Polybius, Histories, book 8, chapter 11 5:1)

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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