Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄκτητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκτητος ἄκτητη ἄκτητον

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

Etym.: kta/omai

Sense

  1. not worth getting

Examples

  • οὐκοῦν πάντα, οἱο͂ν καὶ ὦτα καὶ ῥῖνασ καὶ στόμα καὶ πάσασ τὰσ αἰσθήσεισ, εἷσ λόγοσ συνέχει, τὰσ μὲν ἀκόντωσ κακὰ ἐργαζομένασ ἀκτήτουσ εἶναι ὡσ πονηρὰσ οὔσασ, τὰσ δὲ ἑκουσίωσ κτητὰσ ὡσ ἀγαθὰσ οὔσασ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 70:12)

Synonyms

  1. not worth getting

Derived

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

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