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ἀνωφέλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνωφέλητος ἀνωφέλητη ἀνωφέλητον

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

Etym.: w)fele/w

Sense

  1. unprofitable, useless

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • ὅστισ δ’ ἀνωφέλητα φιτύει τέκνα, τί τόνδ’ ἂν εἴποισ ἄλλο πλὴν αὑτῷ πόνουσ φῦσαι, πολὺν δὲ τοῖσιν ἐχθροῖσιν γέλων; (Sophocles, Antigone, episode8)
  • οἴμοι τάλαινα τῆσ ἐμῆσ πάλαι τροφῆσ ἀνωφελήτου, τὴν ἐγὼ θάμ’ ἀμφὶ σοὶ πόνῳ γλυκεῖ παρέσχον· (Sophocles, episode 1:5)
  • τὸ δ’ ἔχοντα δύναμιν ᾗ ἔστι μὲν φίλουσ εὖ ποιοῦντα ἀντωφελεῖσθαι, ἔστι δὲ ἐχθροὺσ ἔχοντα πειρᾶσθαι τείσασθαι, ἔπειτ’ ἀμελεῖν τοῦ πορίζεσθαι, οἰεί τι, ἔφη, ἧττόν τι τοῦτο εἶναι αἰσχρὸν ἢ εἴ τισ ἔχων μὲν ἀγρούσ, ἔχων δὲ ἐργάτασ οἷσ ἂν ἐργάζοιτο, ἔπειτ’ ἐῴη τὴν ἀργοῦσαν ἀνωφέλητον εἶναι; (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 14:4)

Synonyms

  1. unprofitable

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

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