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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

  • Τοῦ δ’ ἐπιτρόπου τῆσ Ἠπείρου ἀκοσμότερον σπουδάσαντοσ κωμῳδῷ τινι καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ δημοσίᾳ λοιδορηθέντοσ, εἶτα ἑξῆσ ἀπαγγείλαντοσ πρὸσ αὐτόν, ὅτι ἐλοιδορήθη, καὶ ἀγανακτοῦντοσ πρὸσ τοὺσ λοιδορήσαντασ Καὶ τί κακόν, ἔφη, ἐποίουν; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 1:1)

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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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