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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

  • τὸ δ’ ἐν τῇ πολιορκίᾳ τοὺσ μὲν ἄλλουσ οἰκτίρειν ἑαυτούσ, ἐμὲ δὲ μηδὲν ἀπορώτερον διάγειν ἢ ὅτε τὰ μάλιστα ἡ πόλισ ηὐδαιμόνει; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 19:1)
  • ἀλλὰ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ αἱρετέον ἐδόκει εἶναι ὅσῳ ἀπορώτερον· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 26 3:1)
  • ἐὰν δὲ ἅπασαι μὲν αἱ οἰκίαι πέσωσιν ὑπὸ σεισμοῦ, καθάπερ ἐν Σπάρτῃ ποτέ, καὶ πάντα διαφθαρῇ τὰ πρόβατα, ὡσ μηδένα ἐσθῆτοσ εὐπορῆσαι, μὴ μόνον δὲ τὴν Ἀττικήν, ἀλλὰ καὶ Βοιωτίαν καὶ Πελοπόννησον καὶ Θετταλίαν ἀπορία καταλάβῃ, ὥσπερ ἤδη πρότερόν φασιν, οὐδὲν ἐγὼ χεῖρον οὐδὲ ἀπορώτερον βιώσομαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 73:1)
  • ἔτι οὖν ἀπορώτερον ἢ πρότερον διεκείμεθα, οὐ γὰρ ἔμοιγε ἤρκει τετιμῆσθαι διὰ κενῆσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 20:9)
  • Ὁ δὲ λιμὸσ τοῖσ Αἰγυπτίοισ ἐπετείνετο καὶ τὸ δεινὸν ἀπορώτερον ἔτι καὶ μᾶλλον αὐτοῖσ ἐγίνετο μήτε τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἐπάρδοντοσ, οὐ γὰρ ηὔξανε, μήτε ὑόντοσ τοῦ θεοῦ πρόνοιάν τε μηδεμίαν αὐτῶν ὑπ’ ἀγνοίασ πεποιημένων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 234:1)

Synonyms

  1. hard

  2. poor

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