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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

  • οἱ δὲ ἄνηβοι παῖδεσ εἰσδυόμενοι διὰ τῶν ὑπονόμων εἰσ τὰ κεκοιλωμένα τῆσ πέτρασ ἀναβάλλουσιν ἐπιπόνωσ τὴν ῥιπτουμένην κατὰ μικρὸν πέτραν καὶ πρὸσ τὸν ἐκτὸσ τοῦ στομίου τόπον εἰσ ὕπαιθρον ἀποκομίζουσιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 13 1:1)

Related

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

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