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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

  • εἶπε δ’ εὔβουλοσ ἐν μέσοισι Θέμισ, οὕνεκεν πεπρωμένον ἦν φέρτερον γόνον ἄνακτα πατρὸσ τεκεῖν ποντίαν θεόν, ὃσ κεραυνοῦ τε κρέσσον ἄλλο βέλοσ διώξει χερὶ τριόδοντόσ τ’ ἀμαιμακέτου, Δί τε μισγομέναν ἢ Διὸσ παρ’ ἀδελφεοῖσιν. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 8 10:1)
  • ἄλλον δ’ ἂν ἄλλῳ προσίδοισ ἅπερ εὔπτερον ὄρνιν κρεῖσσον ἀμαιμακέτου πυρὸσ ὄρμενον ἀκτὰν πρὸσ ἑσπέρου θεοῦ. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 24)
  • καὶ τάδε σοὶ βριαρᾶσ, Ἡράκλεεσ, οὐ δίχα βύρσασ θῆκεν, ἀμαιμακέτου κρατὸσ ἔρεισμα, κέρα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 115 1:1)

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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