Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπίθανος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπίθανος ἀπίθανη ἀπίθανον

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

Sense

  1. not winning belief, incredible, unlikely, improbable, not persuasive, unconvincing
  2. not to be trusted
  3. not having confidence

Examples

  • τῶν δ’ ἄλλα περὶ Ταρπηίασ λεγόντων ἀπίθανοι μέν εἰσιν οἱ Τατίου θυγατέρα τοῦ ἡγεμόνοσ τῶν Σαβίνων οὖσαν αὐτήν, Ῥωμύλῳ δὲ βίᾳ συνοικοῦσαν, ἱστοροῦντεσ ταῦτα ποιῆσαι καὶ παθεῖν ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρόσ· (Plutarch, chapter 17 5:2)
  • οὔκουν ἐβούλοντο φαίνεσθαιτοῖσ πολλοῖσ ἀπίθανοι καὶ ἀηδεῖσ καινοποιοῦντεσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 58:3)
  • καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι δὲ μάρτυρεσ οὐκ ἀπίθανοι, οἷσ κέχρηται ὁ Ἐρατοσθένησ . (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 17:11)

Synonyms

  1. not having confidence

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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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