Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄμουσος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμουσος ἄμουση ἄμουσον

Structure: ἀμους (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mou=sa

Sense

  1. without the Muses, without taste, unrefined, inelegant, rude, gross
  2. unmusical

Examples

  • "εἰ δὲ δύσμορφον ἡ ὗσ καὶ θολερόν, ἀλλ’ οὐ κανθάρου καὶ γυπὸσ καὶ κροκοδείλου καὶ αἰλούρου τὴν ὄψιν ἀτοπώτερον ἢ τὴν φύσιν ἀμουσότερον οἷσ ὡσ ἁγιωτάτοισ ἱερεῖσ Αἰγυπτίων ἄλλοισ ἄλλοι προσφέρονται. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. unmusical

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

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