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ἀνόητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνόητος ἀνόητη ἀνόητον

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

Sense

  1. not thought on, unheard of
  2. not within the province of thought, unintelligent
  3. not understanding, unintelligent, oh you fool, follies

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἀνόητος ἀνόήτη ἀνόητον
Genitive ἀνοήτου ἀνόήτης ἀνοήτου
Dative ἀνοήτῳ ἀνόήτῃ ἀνοήτῳ
Accusative ἀνόητον ἀνόήτην ἀνόητον
Vocative ἀνόητε ἀνόήτη ἀνόητον
DualN/A/V ἀνοήτω ἀνόήτᾱ ἀνοήτω
G/D ἀνοήτοιν ἀνόήταιν ἀνοήτοιν
PluralNominative ἀνόητοι ἀνό́ηται ἀνόητα
Genitive ἀνοήτων ἀνόητῶν ἀνοήτων
Dative ἀνοήτοις ἀνόήταις ἀνοήτοις
Accusative ἀνοήτους ἀνόήτᾱς ἀνόητα
Vocative ἀνόητοι ἀνό́ηται ἀνόητα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀνόητος ἀνοήτου ἀνοητότερος ἀνοητοτέρου ἀνοητότατος ἀνοητοτάτου
Adverb ἀνοήτως ἀνοητότερον ἀνοητότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • διαδεδεγμένοσ τὰ πολιτεύματα τοῦ πατρόσ, καὶ ὅτ’ αὐτὸσ εἶχε τὴν ὕπατον ἀρχὴν κωλύσασ δοθῆναι τοῖσ δημάρχοισ τὴν κατὰ τῶν ἱππέων τῶν ἐπὶ τῇ συνωμοσίᾳ διαβαλλομένων ἐξέτασιν, καὶ μακρὸν διεξελθὼν λόγον ἐδίδασκεν, ὅτι μετριώτεροσ μὲν ὁ δῆμοσ οὐδὲν οὐδὲ χρηστότεροσ ἔσται διπλασιασθείσησ αὐτῷ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ, ἀνοητότεροσ δὲ καὶ βαρύτεροσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 30 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. not thought on

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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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