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ἀνόστιμος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: anostimos

Principal Part: ἀνόστιμος ἀνόστιμη ἀνόστιμον

Structure: (Prefix) + νοστιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not returning
  2. not to be retraced

Examples

  • στέγαι δ ἔρημοι φίλων, τὰν δ ἀνόστιμον τέκνων Χάρωνος ἐπιμένει πλάτα βίου κέλευθον ἄθεον ἄδι- κον: (Euripides, Heracles, choral, antistrophe 33)
  • ἀλλὰ τὰ μέν που μέλλεν ἀγάσσεσθαι θεὸς αὐτός, ὃς κεῖνον δύστηνον ἀνόστιμον οἰο῀ν ἔθηκεν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 19:7)

Synonyms

  1. not returning

Derived

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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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