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ἀνήκεστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνήκεστος ἀνήκεστη ἀνήκεστον

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

Etym.: a)ke/omai

Sense

  1. not to be healed, incurable, irreparable, fatal, irreparable injuries
  2. implacable
  3. damaging beyond remedy, deadly, with barbarous cruelty

Examples

  • οὕτω δὴ καὶ τῶν ἁμαρτανόντων ἀνήκεστοι μὲν εἰσιν οἱ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐλέγχοντασ καὶ νουθετοῦντασ ἐχθρῶσ καὶ ἀγρίωσ διατιθέμενοι καὶ χαλεπαίνοντεσ οἱ δ’ ὑπομένοντεσ καὶ προσιέμενοι πραότερον ἔχουσι. (Plutarch, Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus, chapter, section 11 3:1)
  • Αἱ δὲ κατ’ ἀρχὰσ ἁμα άδεσ οὐχ ὁμοίωσ ταύτῃσιν ἀνήκεστοί εἰσιν, ἀλλὰ πολλῷ εὐακεστότ εραι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 11.4)

Synonyms

  1. implacable

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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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