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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

  • ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶν ὡσ ὁ Θεὸσ ἡμῶν οἱ θεοὶ αὐτῶν. οἱ δὲ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν ἀνόητοι. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 32:31)
  • ᾦ τάλανεσ ἡμεῖσ καὶ λίαν ἀνόητοι. βασιλέωσ ἡμᾶσ παρακαλοῦντοσ καὶ ἐπὶ εὐεργεσίᾳ φωνοῦντοσ, μὴ πεισθείημεν αὐτῷ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 8:17)
  • πολλοὶ γὰρ οἱ ἀνόητοι καὶ παρέχοντεσ αὑτοὺσ καταγοητεύεσθαι· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:3)
  • ἐξ ἐρίων δὴ καὶ κλωστήρων καὶ ἀτράκτων πράγματα δεινὰ παύσειν οἰέσθ’ ὦ ἀνόητοι; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, antepirrheme16)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ ἀγανακτοῦμεν, εἴ τινεσ ἄνθρωποι ὄντεσ οὐ πάνυ ἀνόητοι διελέγχουσι ταῦτα καὶ τὴν πρόνοιαν ἡμῶν παρωθοῦνται, δέον ἀγαπᾶν εἴ τινεσ ἡμῖν ἔτι θύουσι τοιαῦτα ἐξαμαρτάνουσιν. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 20:2)

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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