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ἄκραντος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκραντος ἄκραντη ἄκραντον

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

Etym.: krai/nw, like epic a)kra/antos

Sense

  1. unfulfilled, fruitless, in vain

Examples

  • ἀψευδὲσ ἦθοσ, εὐπροσήγορον στόμα, ἄκραντον οὐδὲν οὔτ’ ἐσ οἰκέτασ ἔχων οὔτ’ ἐσ πολίτασ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode20)
  • τὸν δ’ ἔτι μῦθον ἄκραντον ἐνὶ στομάτεσσιν ἔχοντα πτηνὸσ ἐσ ἀθανάτουσ ἡρ́πασεν ὦκα δόναξ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. h'. ANAXARSIS O SKUQHS 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. unfulfilled

Related

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

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