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ἀκόλυμβος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκόλυμβος ἀκόλυμβη ἀκόλυμβον

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

Sense

  1. unable to swim

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἀκόλυμβος ἀκόλύμβη ἀκόλυμβον
Genitive ἀκολύμβου ἀκόλύμβης ἀκολύμβου
Dative ἀκολύμβῳ ἀκόλύμβῃ ἀκολύμβῳ
Accusative ἀκόλυμβον ἀκόλύμβην ἀκόλυμβον
Vocative ἀκόλυμβε ἀκόλύμβη ἀκόλυμβον
DualN/A/V ἀκολύμβω ἀκόλύμβᾱ ἀκολύμβω
G/D ἀκολύμβοιν ἀκόλύμβαιν ἀκολύμβοιν
PluralNominative ἀκόλυμβοι ἀκό́λυμβαι ἀκόλυμβα
Genitive ἀκολύμβων ἀκόλυμβῶν ἀκολύμβων
Dative ἀκολύμβοις ἀκόλύμβαις ἀκολύμβοις
Accusative ἀκολύμβους ἀκόλύμβᾱς ἀκόλυμβα
Vocative ἀκόλυμβοι ἀκό́λυμβαι ἀκόλυμβα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀκόλυμβος ἀκολύμβου ἀκολυμβότερος ἀκολυμβοτέρου ἀκολυμβότατος ἀκολυμβοτάτου
Adverb ἀκολύμβως ἀκολυμβότερον ἀκολυμβότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πολλοὶ καὶ προσδιαλέγονται τοῖσ ἐπταικόσιν, ἀλλ’ ἀχρήστωσ μᾶλλον δὲ βλαβερῶσ, καθάπερ ἀκόλυμβοι πνιγομένοισ ἐπιχειροῦντεσ βοηθεῖν περιπλεκόμενοι καὶ συγκαταδύνοντεσ· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 1 1:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ τοῖσ ἀκολύμβοισ βαπτίζεσθαι συμβαίνει ξύλων τρόπον ἐπιπολάζουσιν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 18:4)

Synonyms

  1. unable to swim

Similar forms

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

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