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ἀπηνής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπηνής ἀπηνές

Structure: ἀπηνη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Deriv. of -hnhs, as in proshnh/s, uncertain.

Sense

  1. ungentle, harsh, rough, hard

Examples

  • συννοήσασ δὲ Καῖσαρ τὴν ἀπάτην πρὸσ βλάβησ μὲν ἔγνω τὸν ἐν πολέμοισ ἔλεον, τὸ γὰρ ἀπηνέστερον ἧττον ὑποπίπτειν τῷ πανούργῳ, τὰσ δ’ ἐμβολὰσ τῆσ ἑλεπόλεωσ ὀργῇ τῆσ χλεύησ ἐποιεῖτο δυνατωτέρασ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 373:1)
  • χρυσοῦ δὲ καὶ λίθου πολυτελοῦσ, φοβερώτερον καὶ δι’ αὐτὰ μᾶλλον θεασαμένη καί τι κἀκείνου προσιδόντοσ αὐτὴν ἀπηνέστερον καὶ διακεκαυμένῳ ὑπὸ τῆσ ὀργῆσ τῷ προσώπῳ, πάρεσισ αὐτὴν εὐθὺσ λαμβάνει καὶ τοῖσ παρὰ πλευρὸν οὖσιν ἀχανὴσ ἐπέπεσεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 11 283:1)

Synonyms

  1. ungentle

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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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