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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

  • καίτοι Δείνων φησὶν ὅτι Οἄρσησ, ἀλλὰ τὸν Κτησίαν, εἰ καὶ τἆλλα μύθων ἀπιθάνων καὶ παραφόρων ἐμβέβληκεν εἰσ τὰ βιβλία παντοδαπὴν πυλαίαν, οὐκ εἰκόσ ἐστιν ἀγνοεῖν τοὔνομα τοῦ βασιλέωσ παρ’ ᾧ διέτριβε θεραπεύων αὐτὸν καὶ γυναῖκα καὶ μητέρα καὶ παῖδασ. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 1 2:3)
  • οὗτοσ γὰρ ἐν μὲν ταῖσ τῶν πέλασ κατηγορίαισ πολλὴν ἐπιφαίνει δεινότητα καὶ τόλμαν, ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἰδίαισ ἀποφάσεσιν ἐνυπνίων καὶ τεράτων καὶ μύθων ἀπιθάνων καὶ συλλήβδην δεισιδαιμονίασ ἀγεννοῦσ καὶ τερατείασ γυναικώδουσ ἐστὶ πλήρησ. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 24 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. not having confidence

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Derived

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

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