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ἀμέγαρτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμέγαρτος ἀμέγαρτη ἀμέγαρτον

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

Etym.: megai/rw

Sense

  1. unenviable
  2. melancholy, direful
  3. unhappy, miserable

Examples

  • οἴμοι μᾶτερ, πῶσ φθέγγῃ ἀμέγαρτα κακῶν; (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, mesode18)
  • ἀμέγαρτα γὰρ τάδε Ζεὺσ ἰδίοισ νόμοισ κρατύνων ὑπερήφανον θεοῖσ τοῖσ πάροσ ἐνδείκνυσιν αἰχμάν. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, strophe 13)
  • ταυροφόνων δ’ ἀμέγαρτα καὶ αἱμαλέα κρέα δόρπων θηρσὶ καὶ οἰωνοῖσ λείψομεν ὠμοβόροισ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 60 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. unenviable

  2. unhappy

Related

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

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