Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄκλειστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκλειστος ἄκλειστη ἄκλειστον

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

Etym.: klei/w

Sense

  1. not closed or fastened

Examples

  • ἦσαν δὲ μέσαι τηνικαῦτα νύκτεσ, καὶ πολλὴ καθ’ ὅλην τὴν πόλιν ἡσυχία, ἣν συνεργὸν λαβὼν ἐξεβίβασε τοὺσ ἄνδρασ κατὰ σπουδὴν καὶ διὰ τῶν ἀκλείστων πυλῶν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 14 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. not closed or fastened

Related

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

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