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ἀναίμακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναίμακτος ἀναίμακτη ἀναίμακτον

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

Etym.: ai(ma/ssw

Sense

  1. unstained with blood

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

  • κρεῖσσον δὲ πύργου βωμόσ, ἄρρηκτον σάκοσ ἀλλ’ ὡσ τάχιστα βᾶτε, καὶ λευκοστεφεῖσ ἱκετηρίασ, ἁγάλματ’ αἰδοίου Διόσ, σεμνῶσ ἔχουσαι διὰ χερῶν εὐωνύμων, αἰδοῖα καὶ γοεδνὰ καὶ ζαχρεῖ’ ἔπη ξένουσ ἀμείβεσθ’, ὡσ ἐπήλυδασ πρέπει, τορῶσ λέγουσαι τάσδ’ ἀναιμάκτουσ φυγάσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 1:6)
  • νύμφαισ ταῦτα φέροι τισ ἀναιμάκτουσ δὲ θυηλὰσ οὐ δέχομαι βωμοῖσ ὁ θρασύμητισ Ἄρησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3242)
  • τίσ οὐκ οἶδεν τὴν παντὸσ θηρίου καταπλησθεῖσαν Αἴγυπτον καὶ πάσῃ φθαρεῖσαν νόσῳ, τὴν ἄκαρπον [γῆν], τὸν ἐπιλείποντα Νεῖλον, τὰσ ἐπαλλήλουσ δέκα πληγάσ, τοὺσ διὰ ταῦτα μετὰ φρουρᾶσ προπεμπομένουσ πατέρασ ἡμῶν ἀναιμάκτουσ ἀκινδύνουσ, οὓσ ὁ θεὸσ αὑτῷ νεωκόρουσ ἦγεν; (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 435:1)

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

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