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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

  • πολλῶν οὖν ὄντων τῶν ἰχθύων, οὓσ κατὰ τὰσ ἑκάστασ ὡρ́ασ ἐδαινύμεθα, ὦ θαυμασιώτατε Τιμόκρατεσ, κατὰ γὰρ τὸν Σοφοκλέα χορὸσ δ’ ἀναύδων ἰχθύων ἐπερρόθει, σαίνοντεσ οὐραίοισι οὐ τὴν κεκτημένην, ἀλλὰ τὰσ λοπάδασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 51)
  • γναπτόμενοι δὲ δίνᾳ, φεῦ, σκύλλονται πρὸσ ἀναύδων, ἠέ, παίδων τᾶσ ἀμιάντου, ὀᾶ. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 21)

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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