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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

  • ἐσθίουσιν δὲ αἳ μὲν λάβρωσ αἳ δὲ κοσμίωσ, καὶ τὸ κόσμιον γενναιότερον τοῦ ἀκόσμου. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 8 1:1)
  • παρὰ δὲ Ἐπικούρῳ οὐ σπονδή, οὐκ ἀπαρχὴ θεοῖσ, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ Σιμωνίδησ ἔφη περὶ τῆσ ἀκόσμου γυναικόσ, ἄθυστα δὲ ἱρὰ πολλάκισ κατεσθίει τὴν γὰρ σύμμετρον κρᾶσιν τοῦ οἴνου ὑπὸ Ἀμφικτύονοσ βασιλεύσαντοσ διδαχθῆναί φασιν Ἀθηναίουσ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἱερὸν Διονύσου ὀρθοῦ ἱδρύσασθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 7 2:5)
  • ἐξ ἀναισχύντου αἰδήμων ἔσῃ, ἐξ ἀκόσμου κόσμιοσ, ἐξ ἀπίστου πιστόσ, ἐξ ἀκολάστου σώφρων. (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 17:3)

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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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