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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

  • χήρη δ’, ἡ μὲν ἄκοσμοσ ἔχει πάνδημον ἐραστήν, καὶ πάντα φρονέει δήνεα μαχλοσύνησ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 302 1:3)
  • τροπὴ δὲ γίνεται μετὰ τοῦτο τῶν Φιδηναίων καὶ φυγὴ πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν ἄκοσμοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 25 2:2)
  • φυγὴ δὴ τῶν Ἑρνίκων τὸ μετὰ τοῦτ’ ἐγίνετο ἐπὶ τὸν χάρακα τεταραγμένη τε καὶ ἄκοσμοσ, καὶ οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι αὐτοῖσ κτείνοντεσ ἠκολούθουν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 65 9:1)
  • νόμιμοσ δὲ οὐκ ἂν εἰή ποτὲ ἄφρων καὶ ἄκοσμοσ οὖσα. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 36:1)
  • ἣν ὁ μὲν τιμῶν καὶ φυλάττων καὶ μηδὲνἐναντίον πράττων νόμιμοσ καὶ θεοφιλὴσ καὶ κόσμιοσ, ὁ δὲ ταράττων ὅσον ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ καὶ παραβαίνων καὶ ἀγνοῶν ἄνομοσ καὶ ἄκοσμοσ, ὁμοίωσ μὲν ἰδιώτησ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ ἄρχων ὀνομαζόμενοσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 51:1)

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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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