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ἀνάσκητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνάσκητος ἀνάσκητη ἀνάσκητον

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

Etym.: a)ske/w

Sense

  1. unpractised, unexercised

Examples

  • Μάρκελλοσ δὲ πρὸσ οὐδὲν μὲν ἦν μάχησ εἶδοσ ἀργὸσ οὐδὲ ἀνάσκητοσ, αὐτὸσ δ’ ἑαυτοῦ κράτιστοσ ἐν τῷ μονομαχεῖν γενόμενοσ οὐδεμίαν πρόκλησιν ἔφυγε, πάντασ δὲ τοὺσ προκαλεσαμένουσ ἀπέκτεινεν. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 2 1:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ στρατιά τισ φαύλη καὶ ἀνάσκητοσ ἦν αὐτῷ, ἀλλ’ ἡ κρατίστη τῶν τότε οὐσῶν ἐν Ἕλλησι καὶ πλείστουσ ἀγωνισαμένη πολέμουσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 10 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. unpractised

Related

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

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