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ἀμαθής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμαθής ἀμαθές

Structure: ἀμαθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: manqa/nw

Sense

  1. unlearned, ignorant, stupid, boorish, stupid, with too little learning, through ignorance
  2. without knowledge of
  3. not heard of, unknown, an unforeseen course

Examples

  • ἡ δὲ τῶν πολλῶν καὶ ἀμαθῶν καὶ οὐ πάνυ; (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 21 4:1)
  • "πλὴν ὅτι γε ταῖσ Μούσαισ ὁ τῶν ῥόδων στέφανοσ ἐπιπεφήμισται, μεμνῆσθαί μοι δοκῶ Σαπφοῦσ λεγούσησ πρόσ τινα τῶν ἀμούσων καὶ ἀμαθῶν γυναικῶν κατθάνοισα δὲ κείσεαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 7:14)

Synonyms

  1. without knowledge of

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

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