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ἀμετάστατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμετάστατος ἀμετάστατη ἀμετάστατον

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

Etym.: meqi/sthmi

Sense

  1. not to be transposed, unchangeable, unchanging
  2. not to be got rid of or put away

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

  • "εἰ γάρ ἐστι πέρασ τῷ εἶναι τὸ μὴ εἶναι, τοῦτο δ’ ἀπέραντον καὶ ἀμετάστατον, εὑρ́ηται κακὸν αἰώνιον ἡ τῶν ἀγαθῶν στέρησισ, ἀναισθησίαν μηδέποτε παυσομένην. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 3011)
  • "ἄξιόν ἐστιν ὥσπερ εἱμαρμένην ἀμετάστατον καὶ, ἀμετάθετον ἐν τοῖσ ἀθλήμασιν ἐκπεπλῆχθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 13:1)
  • ὁ γὰρ νέοσ οὐχ οἱο͂́σ τε κρίνειν ὅτι τε ὑπόνοια καὶ ὃ μή, ἀλλ’ ἃ ἂν τηλικοῦτοσ ὢν λάβῃ ἐν ταῖσ δόξαισ δυσέκνιπτά τε καὶ ἀμετάστατα φιλεῖ γίγνεσθαι· (Plato, Republic, book 2 362:3)

Synonyms

  1. not to be transposed

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

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