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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

  • τῆσ δ’ ἡμέρασ διελθούσησ τὸν μὲν κήρυκα ἀπ έπεμψε, δοὺσ εἰσ τὴν αὔριον τὴν ἀναίρεσιν, αὐτὸσ δὲ πρώτησ φυλακῆσ ἀρχομένησ ἀνέζευξε μετὰ πάσησ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ καὶ συντόνουσ τὰσ πορείασ ποιούμενοσ ἀπέστη μὲν τῶν πολεμίων μακράν, ἔσχε δὲ χώραν ἀκεραίαν εἰσ ἀνάληψιν τοῦ στρατοπέδου· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 32 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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