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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

  • δηλοῦσι δὲ μάλιστα τὴν δεινότητα τῆσ εὑρέσεωσ αὐτοῦ οἵ τε ἀμάρτυροι τῶν λόγων καὶ οἱ περὶ τὰσ παραδόξουσ συνταχθέντεσ ὑποθέσεισ, ἐν οἷσ πλεῖστα καὶ κάλλιστα ἐνθυμήματα λέγει καὶ τὰ πάνυ δοκοῦντα τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἄπορα εἶναι καὶ ἀδύνατα εὔπορα καὶ δυνατὰ φαίνεσθαι ποιεῖ, κριτικὸσ ὧν δεῖ λέγειν καὶ ὅτε μὴ πᾶσιν ἐξῆν χρῆσθαι τοῖσ εὑρεθεῖσι, τῶν κρατίστων δὲ καὶ κυριωτάτων ἐκλεκτικόσ, εἰ μὴ καὶ μάλιστα τῶν ἄλλων ῥητόρων, οὐδενόσ γε ἧττον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 15 1:4)
  • κἀν τούτοισ δὲ αὐτοῖσ ἀμείνων ἐστὶ τὰ μικρὰ καὶ παράδοξα καὶ ἄπορα εἰπεῖν καλῶσ, ἢ τὰ σεμνὰ καὶ μεγάλα καὶ εὔπορα δυνατῶσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 16 1:3)
  • νὴ τὸν Διόνυσον ἄπορά γ’ ἡμῖν πράγματα δαίμων τισ ἐσκεκύκληκεν ἐσ τὴν οἰκίαν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode1)
  • Τὸ μὲν ὅλον παύσασθαι αὐτοῖσ παρεγγύα ληροῦσι καὶ περὶ τῶν ὅλων ἐρίζουσι καὶ κέρατα φύουσιν ἀλλήλοισ καὶ κροκοδείλουσ ποιοῦσι καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἄπορα ἐρωτᾶν διδάσκουσι τὸν νοῦν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:6)
  • "μηδὲ τὰ μὲν χαλεπά τε καὶ ἄπορα ἐμοὶ ἐπιτετραμμένα ἐκ σοῦ ἔστω, τὰ δὲ εὐπετέα τε καὶ κλέεοσ ἤδη ἐχόμενα ἑτοίμου, ταῦτα δὲ ἀπαιρεθέντα ἄλλῳ ἐσ χεῖρασ διδόσθω. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 36 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. hard

  2. poor

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