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ἄναυδος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄναυδος ἄναυδον

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

Etym.: au)dh/

Sense

  1. speechless, silent
  2. preventing speech, silencing
  3. unutterable

Examples

  • ὥστε κἂν ἄναυδον κύνα ῥῆξαι φωνήν, οὐ μεῖον ἤ, ὡσ λόγοσ, τὸν Κροίσου υἱέα. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 16 8:2)
  • , καὶ τὸ κολακεῦον αὐτῆσ λάλον ἐστὶ τὸ δὲ νουθετοῦν ἄναυδον, ἀκουστέον ἐστὶ παρὰ τῶν ἐχθρῶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 6 2:1)
  • καὶ νεῦρα δυσκαμπῆ καὶ γλῶτταν ἄναυδον ἀκινησίᾳ καὶ σκληρότητι τὸ ἄγαν ψῦχοσ, ἐκπηγνύον τὰ καὶ μαλακὰ τοῦ σώματοσ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 18 4:1)
  • "ἐν δ’ Ὀρχομενῷ λέγουσι λοιμοῦ γενομένου πολλοὺσ μὲν ἀνθρώπουσ διαφθαρῆναι τὸ δὲ τοῦ Τειρεσίου χρηστήριον ἐκλιπεῖν παντάπασι καὶ μέχρι τοῦ νῦν ἀργὸν διαμένειν καὶ ἄναυδον. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 444)
  • ὁρῶ κόνιν, ἄναυδον ἄγγελον στρατοῦ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. speechless

  2. unutterable

Related

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

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