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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

  • οὐδ’ ἀκράντοισ ἐφάψατ’ ὦν ἔπεσι. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 1 22:5)
  • μεταμώνια θηρεύων ἀκράντοισ ἐλπίσιν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 3 7:1)
  • ῥοπὴ δ’ ἐπισκοπεῖ δίκασ ταχεῖα τοὺσ μὲν ἐν φάει, τὰ δ’ ἐν μεταιχμίῳ σκότου μένει χρονίζοντασ ἄχη βρύει, τοὺσ δ’ ἄκραντοσ ἔχει νύξ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 24)

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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