Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀκίχητος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκίχητος ἀκίχητη ἀκίχητον

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

Etym.: kixa/nw

Sense

  1. not to be reached, unattainable
  2. not to be reached by prayer, inexorable

Examples

  • ἀκίχητα γὰρ ἤθεα καὶ κέαρ ἀπαράμυθον ἔχει Κρόνου παῖσ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, antistrophe 24)
  • τί οὖν ἔτι διώκεισ, ὦ κακόδαιμον, πρᾶγμα ἀκίχητον; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 46:5)
  • Ἕκτορ νῦν σὺ μὲν ὧδε θέεισ ἀκίχητα διώκων ἵππουσ Αἰακίδαο δαί̈φρονοσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 7:8)

Synonyms

  1. not to be reached by prayer

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

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