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ἀνωφελής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνωφελής ἀνωφελές

Structure: ἀνωφελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: w)fele/w

Sense

  1. unprofitable, useless
  2. hurtful, prejudicial

Examples

  • ἀνδρεῖοσ ἐν ἀσεβείαισ συκοφαντεῖ πτωχούσ. ὥσπερ ὑετὸσ λάβροσ καὶ ἀνωφελήσ, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 28:3)
  • τότε γὰρ ἦσθ’ ἀνωφελήσ. (Euripides, episode, iambic 1:34)
  • Ὦ παῖ Νέστοροσ, ἀλλὰ τότε μὲν ἄπειροσ ἔτι τῶν ἐνταῦθα ὢν καὶ τὸ βέλτιον ἐκείνων ὁπότερον ἦν ἀγνοῶν τὸ δύστηνον ἐκεῖνο δοξάριον προετίμων τοῦ βίου, νῦν δὲ συνίημι ἤδη ὡσ ἐκείνη μὲν ἀνωφελήσ, εἰ καὶ ὅτι μάλιστα οἱ ἄνω ῥαψῳδήσουσι· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἀνωφελὲσ τοῦ λέγειν ὁρῶμεν· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 7:4)
  • καὶ ἄνευ δὲ τῆσ κατάρασ ἀπρεπὴσ καὶ ἀνωφελὴσ ὁ θησαυρισμὸσ αὐτοῦ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἁμαρτημάτων ὥσπερ ἡ πόλισ, ἣν ἐκ τῶν κακίστων καὶ ἀναγωγοτάτων κτίσασ ὁ Φίλιπποσ Πονηρόπολιν προσηγόρευσεν. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 10 2:1)
  • ’ καὶ ἄνευ δὲ τῆσ κατάρασ ἀπρεπὴσ καὶ ἀνωφελὴσ ὁ θησαυρὸσ αὐτοῦ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἁμαρτημάτων ὥσπερ ἡ πόλισ, ἣν ἐκ τῶν κακίστων καὶ ἀναγωγοτάτων οἰκίσασ ὁ Φίλιπποσ Πονηρόπολιν προσηγόρευσεν. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 10 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. unprofitable

  2. hurtful

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

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