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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἀπίθανος ἀπίθάνη ἀπίθανον
Genitive ἀπιθάνου ἀπίθάνης ἀπιθάνου
Dative ἀπιθάνῳ ἀπίθάνῃ ἀπιθάνῳ
Accusative ἀπίθανον ἀπίθάνην ἀπίθανον
Vocative ἀπίθανε ἀπίθάνη ἀπίθανον
DualN/A/V ἀπιθάνω ἀπίθάνᾱ ἀπιθάνω
G/D ἀπιθάνοιν ἀπίθάναιν ἀπιθάνοιν
PluralNominative ἀπίθανοι ἀπί́θαναι ἀπίθανα
Genitive ἀπιθάνων ἀπίθανῶν ἀπιθάνων
Dative ἀπιθάνοις ἀπίθάναις ἀπιθάνοις
Accusative ἀπιθάνους ἀπίθάνᾱς ἀπίθανα
Vocative ἀπίθανοι ἀπί́θαναι ἀπίθανα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀπίθανος ἀπιθάνου ἀπιθανώτερος ἀπιθανωτέρου ἀπιθανώτατος ἀπιθανωτάτου
Adverb ἀπιθάνως ἀπιθανώτερον ἀπιθανώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἄνθρωποι δὲ περιουσίᾳ συνέσεωσ διὰ τὸ εὐμήχανον ἵππουσ παρατρέφουσι, κύνασ, πέρδικασ, λαγωούσ, κολοιούσ τί οὖν γε σεαυτοῦ κατέγνωκασ, ἀπιθανώτεροσ ὢν κολοιοῦ καὶ ἀφωνότεροσ πέρδικοσ καὶ κυνὸσ ἀγεννέστεροσ, ὥστ’ ἀπ’ ἀνθρώπου μηδενὸσ ὠφελεῖσθαι περιέπων, ψυχαγωγῶν, φυλάττων, προμαχόμενοσ; (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 7 3:1)

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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