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ἀπαιδία

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπαιδία

Etym.: a)/pais

Sense

  1. childlessness

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ ἀξία πατέρων ἀπ’ ἐσθλῶν οὖσ’ ἀπαιδίᾳ νοσεῖν. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic 2:4)
  • οἱο͂ν ἀπαιδία τὸ λυποῦν ἐστι; (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 6 2:4)
  • οἱο͂ν ἀπαιδία τὸ λυποῦν ἐστι; (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 6 7:1)
  • δεῖ δὲ μήτε πενίᾳ πρὸσ χρημάτων πεφράχθαι στέρησιν μήτε ἀφιλίᾳ πρὸσ φίλων ἀποβολὴν μήτ’ ἀπαιδίᾳ πρὸσ τέκνων θάνατον, ἀλλὰ τῷ λογισμῷ πρὸσ πάντα. (Plutarch, , chapter 7 4:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ πρὶν αὐτὸν ἐξέπεισ’ ἀπαιδία. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 3:25)

Synonyms

  1. childlessness

Related

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

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