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ἄκλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκλητος ἄκλητη ἄκλητον

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

Sense

  1. uncalled, unbidden

Examples

  • μᾶλλον δὲ ἄκλητοι, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, πάρεισι καὶ περιστάντεσ ἄγχουσιν αὐτόν. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 26:9)
  • οὗτοι δὲ πρὸσ τὰ δεῖπνα τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἀφορῶσιν ἀεὶ καὶ πέτονται δεξιῶσ ἐπὶ ταῦτ’ ἄκλητοι, Ἀντιφάνησ φησί, καὶ ἐπάγει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 7 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. uncalled

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Derived

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

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