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ἀμύθητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμύθητος ἀμύθητη ἀμύθητον

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

Etym.: muqe/omai

Sense

  1. unspeakable, unspeakably many or great

Examples

  • οὐκ ἀγνοῶ δὲ ὅτι τὴν πρὸσ τὴν ἑώ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τούτου καὶ τὴν πρὸσ ἑσπέραν Λιβύην ἀφορίζων Ἡρόδοτοσ ἀνατίθησι Λίβυσι τοῖσ ὀνομαζομένοισ Νασαμῶσι τὴν ἀκριβῆ θεωρίαν τοῦ ῥείθρου, καί φησιν ἔκ τινοσ λίμνησ λαμβάνοντα τὴν ἀρχὴν τὸν Νεῖλον φέρεσθαι διὰ χώρασ Αἰθιοπικῆσ ἀμυθήτου· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 37 11:1)
  • ἔχειν δὲ καὶ τῶν ἡμέρων καρπῶν αὐτομάτων, ἀμπέλου τε πολλῆσ φυομένησ καὶ μήλων ἀμυθήτου πλήθουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 84 1:6)
  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ κρατῆρέσ εἰσι τῷ μεγέθει μὲν οὐ κατὰ πᾶν μεγάλοι, πηγὰσ δ’ ἐξαισίουσ ἀναβάλλοντεσ ἐξ ἀμυθήτου τε βυθοῦ καὶ παραπλήσιον ἔχοντεσ τὴν φύσιν τοῖσ λέβησι τοῖσ ὑπὸ πυρὸσ πολλοῦ καομένοισ καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ διάπυρον ἀναβάλλουσιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 89 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. unspeakable

Related

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

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