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ἀμαιμάκετος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμαιμάκετος ἀμαιμάκετη ἀμαιμάκετον

Structure: ἀμαιμακετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: epic form of a)/maxos

Sense

  1. irresistible
  2. strong, stubborn

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

  • νεῖκοσ γὰρ ἀμαιμάκετον βληχρᾶσ ἀνέπαλτο κασιγνητοῖσ ἀπ’ ἀρχᾶσ Προίτῳ τε καὶ Ἀκρισίῳ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 11 4:6)
  • ἣ δὲ Χίμαιραν ἔτικτε πνέουσαν ἀμαιμάκετον πῦρ, δεινήν τε μεγάλην τε ποδώκεά τε κρατερήν τε· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 32:7)
  • ὅσσα δὲ μὴ πεφίληκε Ζεύσ, ἀτύζονται βοὰν Πιερίδων ἀί̈οντα, γᾶν τε καὶ πόντον κατ’ ἀμαιμάκετον, ὅσ τ’ ἐν αἰνᾷ Ταρτάρῳ κεῖται, θεῶν πολέμιοσ, Τυφὼσ ἑκατοντακάρανοσ· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 5:1)
  • ἐσ δὲ κίνδυνον βαθὺν ἱέμενοι δεσπόταν λίσσοντο ναῶν, συνδρόμων κινηθμὸν ἀμαιμάκετον ἐκφυγεῖν πετρᾶν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 63:4)
  • ἂν δὲ πολύρρινον νώμα σάκοσ, ἂν δὲ καὶ ἔγχοσ δεινόν, ἀμαιμάκετον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 20:23)

Synonyms

  1. irresistible

  2. strong

Related

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

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