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ἀκτέριστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκτέριστος ἀκτέριστη ἀκτέριστον

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

Etym.: kteri/zw

Sense

  1. unhallowed by funeral rites

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ εὖ γέ τοι κάτισθι μὴ πολλοὺσ ἔτι τρόχουσ ἁμιλλητῆρασ ἡλίου τελεῖν, ἐν οἷσι τῶν σῶν αὐτὸσ ἐκ σπλάγχνων ἕνα νέκυν νεκρῶν ἀμοιβὸν ἀντιδοὺσ ἔσει, ἀνθ’ ὧν ἔχεισ μὲν τῶν ἄνω βαλὼν κάτω ψυχήν τ’ ἀτίμωσ ἐν τάφῳ κατῴκισασ, ἔχεισ δὲ τῶν κάτωθεν ἐνθάδ’ αὖ θεῶν ἄμοιρον, ἀκτέριστον, ἀνόσιον νέκυν. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 2:1)
  • φωνῆσ δ’ ἄπωθεν ὀρθίων κωκυμάτων κλύει τισ ἀκτέριστον ἀμφὶ παστάδα, καὶ δεσπότῃ Κρέοντι σημαίνει μολών. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. unhallowed by funeral rites

Similar forms

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

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