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ἀκίβδηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκίβδηλος ἀκίβδηλη ἀκίβδηλον

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

Sense

  1. unadulterated, genuine
  2. guileless, honest

Examples

  • μόνοσ γὰρ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ὁ χρυσορόασ καλούμενοσ Νεῖλοσ μετὰ τροφῶν ἀφθόνων καὶ χρυσὸν ἀκίβδηλον καταφέρει ἀκινδύνωσ γεωργούμενον, ὡσ πᾶσιν ἐξαρκεῖν ἀνθρώποισ, δίκην Τριπτολέμου πεμπόμενον εἰσ πᾶσαν γῆν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 36 1:1)
  • ὁ δὲ ἀλλαττόμενοσ ἢ νόμισμα ἀντὶ νομίσματοσ, ἢ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων ὁτιοῦν ἢ καὶ μὴ ζῴων, ἀκίβδηλον πᾶν διδότω καὶ δεχέσθω τῷ νόμῳ συνεπόμενοσ· (Plato, Laws, book 11 24:1)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν ἀπ’ ἡμέων οὕτω ἀκίβδηλον νέμεται ἐπὶ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 7A 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. unadulterated

  2. guileless

Derived

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

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