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ἀναίτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀναίτιος ἀναίτιη ἀναίτιον

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

Sense

  1. not being the cause, guiltless
  2. guiltless of, it is blamable

Examples

  • σὺ δὲ κακὸσ κακῶσ οἰμώξεισ τοὺσ τῆσ ἀρετῆσ ἀγωνιστὰσ ἀναιτίωσ ἀποκτείνασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 12:15)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὸν ἐναντίον μάλιστα μὲν καὶ πρῶτον ἂν εἶναι δόξειε, τὸ μηδὲν ἀναιτίωσ γίγνεσθαι ἀλλὰ κατὰ προηγουμένασ αἰτίασ· (Plutarch, De fato, section 11 3:1)
  • εἰ μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲν ἀδικῶ, οὐδὲ ὑμεῖσ βούλεσθε δήπου ἀναιτίωσ μισεῖν τινα τῶν ὑμετέρων πολιτῶν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 1:4)
  • αἰσθόμενον δὲ τὸν βάρβαρον τὴν περὶ αὐτὸν ἀπάτην μεταγνῶναί τε καὶ ταφῆσ ἀξιῶσαι τὸν ἀναιτίωσ ἀποθανόντα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 2 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. not being the cause

Related

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

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