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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

  • ταῦτα οὐκ ἐνυπνίοισ ἐοικότα τῷ ὄντι καὶ ἀπιθάνοισ ψεύσμασιν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 162:1)
  • ἀλλὰ τιμῶσι μὲν [τοὺσ] πολλὰ ταλαιπωρήσαντασ, τιμήσαντεσ δὲ φθονοῦσι, καὶ παραγαγόντεσ εἰσ ἐπιφάνειαν οὐ ταύτησ ἀφαιροῦνται μόνον τοὺσ τετυχηκότασ, ἀλλὰ διὰ ταύτην καὶ τοῦ ζῆν ἐπὶ πονηραῖσ αἰτίαισ καὶ δι’ ὑπερβολὴν αὐτῶν ἀπιθάνοισ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 342:1)

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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