Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • βίᾳ χαλινῶν τ’ ἀναύδῳ μένει. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 6 1:1)
  • "διὸ καὶ τὸ τῶν γραμμάτων Αἰγύπτιοι πρῶτον ἶβιν γράφουσιν, ὡσ Ἑρμεῖ προσήκουσαν, οὐκ ὀρθῶσ κατά γε τὴν ἐμὴν δόξαν, ἀναύδῳ καὶ ἀφθόγγῳ προεδρίαν ἐν γράμμασιν ἀποδόντεσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 3:2)
  • " τίφθ’ οὕτωσ, Ὀδυσεῦ, κατ’ ἄρ’ ἕζεαι ἶσοσ ἀναύδῳ, θυμὸν ἔδων, βρώμησ δ’ οὐχ ἅπτεαι οὐδὲ ποτῆτοσ; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 41:1)

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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