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ἀκήρατος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκήρατος ἀκήρατη ἀκήρατον

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

Etym.: kera/nnumi

Sense

  1. unmixed, uncontaminated, undefiled, pure
  2. untouched, unhurt, undamaged, unshorn, unmown
  3. undefiled, untouched by, without taint

Examples

  • ἡ δέ μιν ἀρκεύθοιο νέον τετμηότι θαλλῷ βάπτουσ’ ἐκ κυκεῶνοσ ἀκήρατα φάρμακ’ ἀοιδαῖσ ῥαῖνε κατ’ ὀφθαλμῶν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 3:17)
  • ταῦτ’ εἶπε, καὶ πάλιν ἐπὶ τὸν πρότερον κρατῆρα, ἐν ᾧ τὴν τοῦ παντὸσ ψυχὴν κεραννὺσ ἔμισγεν, τὰ τῶν πρόσθεν ὑπόλοιπα κατεχεῖτο μίσγων τρόπον μέν τινα τὸν αὐτόν, ἀκήρατα δὲ οὐκέτι κατὰ ταὐτὰ ὡσαύτωσ, ἀλλὰ δεύτερα καὶ τρίτα. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 151:1)
  • αὐτῶν μὲν γὰρ κτήματ’ ἀκήρατα κεῖτ’ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ, σῖτοσ καὶ μέθυ ἡδύ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 76:5)

Synonyms

  1. unmixed

  2. undefiled

Related

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

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