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ἄπορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπορος ἄπορος ἄπορον

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

Sense

  1. without passage, impassable, having no way through
  2. hard, difficult
  3. (of people) hard to deal with, unmanageable
  4. not knowing what to do, at a loss
  5. poor, needy

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • εἰ δ’ ἐκεῖνά γε προσέθηκεν, οὐδεὶσ ἀντεχειροτόνησεν ἄν, τοὺσ ἀλφιταμοιβοὺσ τοῖσ ἀπόροισ τρεῖσ χοίνικασ δεῖπνον παρέχειν ἅπασιν ἢ κλάειν μακρά, ἵνα τοῦτ’ ἀπέλαυσαν Ναυσικύδουσ τἀγαθόν. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 2:22)
  • νῦν δὲ ἐνάρχονται μὲν οὐκ ὀλίγοι μάλα ἐρρωμένωσ καὶ προσέρχονται ἐπὶ ποσόν, οἱ μὲν ἐπὶ πάνυ ὀλίγον, οἱ δὲ ἐπὶ πλέον, ἐπειδὰν δὲ κατὰ μέσην τὴν ὁδὸν γένωνται πολλοῖσ τοῖσ ἀπόροισ καὶ δυσχερέσιν ἐντυγχάνοντεσ ἀποδυσπετοῦσί τε καὶ ἀναστρέφουσιν ἀσθμαίνοντεσ καὶ ἱδρῶτι ῥεόμενοι, οὐ φέροντεσ τὸν κάματον. (Lucian, 11:3)
  • ἔν τε γὰρ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ φιλάνθρωποσ ἦν καὶ πρᾷοσ καὶ τοῖσ ἁμαρτάνουσι συγγνωμονικόσ, καὶ δὴ καὶ τοῖσ ἀπόροισ προεδάνειζε χρήματα πρὸσ τὰσ ἐργασίασ, ὥστε διατρέφεσθαι γεωργοῦντασ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 16 2:2)
  • τοῖσ γὰρ ἀπόροισ οὐ δανείζουσιν, ἀλλὰ βουλομένοισ εὐπορίαν τιν’ ἑαυτοῖσ κτᾶσθαι· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 1 5:2)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ἀπόροισ ἐπιτάττει κάλαμον ἢ στιβάδα ἢ φύλλα δάφνησ φέρειν, ὅπωσ ἔχωσι τὰ ἐπάικλα κάπτειν μετὰ δεῖπνον γίνεται γὰρ ἄλφιτα ἐλαίῳ ἐρραμένα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 18 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. hard

  2. poor

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