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ἄνηβος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄνηβος ἄνηβη ἄνηβον

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

Etym.: h(/bh

Sense

  1. not yet come to man's estate, beardless

Examples

  • ἀνηβᾷ δ’ Ἐρεχθεύσ, ὅ τε γηγενέτασ δόμοσ οὐκέτι νύκτα δέρκεται, ἀελίου δ’ ἀναβλέπει λαμπάσιν. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric17)
  • μόνοσ γὰρ ὁ νοῦσ παλαιούμενοσ ἀνηβᾷ, καὶ ὁ χρόνοσ τἄλλα πάντ’ ἀφαιρῶν τῷ γήρᾳ προστίθησι τὴν ἐπιστήμην. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 8 8:1)

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

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