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ἀνήροτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνήροτος ἀνήροτη ἀνήροτον

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

Etym.: a)ro/w

Sense

  1. unploughed, untilled

Examples

  • καίτοι ἀκούω τῶν ποιητῶν λεγόντων ὡσ τὸ παλαιὸν οὐ τοιαῦτα ἦν τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ τὰ πράγματα σοῦ ἔτι μοναρχοῦντοσ, ἀλλ̓ ἡ μὲν γῆ ἄσποροσ καὶ ἀνήροτοσ ἔφυεν αὐτοῖσ τὰ ἀγαθά, δεῖπνον ἕτοιμον ἑκάστῳ ἐσ κόρον, ποταμοὶ δὲ οἱ μὲν οἶνον, οἱ δὲ γάλα, εἰσὶ δὲ οἳ καὶ μέλι ἔρρεον· (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 1 2:1)
  • ἀνεπίτακτοσ γὰρ καὶ ἀδίδακτοσ ὥσπερ ἄσποροσ καὶ ἀνήροτοσ ἐκφέρει καὶ αὔξει κατὰ φύσιν τὴν ἑκάστῳ προσήκουσαν ἀρετήν. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 3 9:1)
  • οὔτ’ ἄρα ποίμνῃσιν καταί̈σχεται οὔτ’ ἀρότοισιν, ἀλλ’ ἥ γ’ ἄσπαρτοσ καὶ ἀνήροτοσ ἤματα πάντα ἀνδρῶν χηρεύει, βόσκει δέ τε μηκάδασ αἶγασ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 9:4)
  • ὥστε οὐκέτι οὐδ’ ἀναβαίνει αὐτήν, ἀλλ’ ἄβατοσ καὶ ἀνήροτόσ ἐστιν. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 19:6)

Synonyms

  1. unploughed

Related

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

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