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ἄκοσμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκοσμος ἄκοσμον

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

Sense

  1. without order, disorderly, disorderly
  2. is no world, inappropriate

Examples

  • "καὶ λαθικηδὴσ καὶ κατὰ τὴν Ἡσιόδειον ἐκείνην ἀλεξιάρην παίδων εὐκηλήτειραν τῶν ἐν ἡμῖν ἀγερώχων καὶ ἀκόσμων παθῶν διὰ βάθουσ ποιοῦσα γαλήνην καὶ ἡσυχίαν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 1:9)
  • "ἥ τε γὰρ ἐν ταῖσ λεγομέναισ παραβάσεσιν αὐτῶν σπουδὴ καὶ παρρησία λίαν ἄκρατόσ ἐστι καὶ σύντονοσ, ἥ τε πρὸσ τὰ σκώμματα καὶ βωμολοχίασ εὐχέρεια δεινῶσ κατάκοροσ καὶ ἀναπεπταμένη καὶ γέμουσα ῥημάτων ἀκόσμων καὶ ἀκολάστων ὀνομάτων· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 10:9)

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

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