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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

  • ἡδέωσ μὲν οὖν Ἀπελλοῦ τινοσ ἢ Παρρασίου ἢ Αἐτίωνοσ ἢ καὶ Εὐφράνοροσ ἂν ἐδεήθην ἐπὶ τὴν γραφήν ἐπεὶ δὲ ἄπορον νῦν εὑρεῖν τινα οὕτωσ γενναῖον καὶ ἀκριβῆ τὴν τέχνην, ψιλὴν ὡσ οἱο͂̀ν τέ σοι ἐπιδείξω τὴν εἰκόνα. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 42:2)
  • ̓σ φάλαγγοσ οὐ φορητὴν γίγνεσθαι, καὶ τοῖσ πρωτοστάταισ αὖ ἄπορον τὴν φυγήν. (Arrian, chapter 12 16:3)
  • "ἐγώ σε, ὦ ἀχάριστε, πένητα καὶ ἄπορον παραλαβοῦσα καὶ βίου δεόμενον, τὰ μὲν πρῶτα ἐν τοῖσ θεάτροισ εὐδοκιμεῖν ἐποίησα, νῦν μὲν Νίνον, νῦν δὲ Μητίοχον, εἶτα μετὰ μικρὸν Ἀχιλλέα τιθεῖσα· (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 22:1)
  • τίσ ἂν οὖν τάδ’ ἂν ἢ θεὸσ ἢ βροτὸσ ἢ τί τῶν ἀδοκήτων, πόρον ἄπορον ἐξανύσασ, δυοῖν τοῖν μόνοιν Ἀτρείδαιν <φαίνοι> κακῶν ἔκλυσιν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 1:12)
  • μὰ τὴν Ἀναπνοὴν μὰ τὸ Χάοσ μὰ τὸν Αἔρα οὐκ εἶδον οὕτωσ ἄνδρ’ ἄγροικον οὐδένα οὐδ’ ἄπορον οὐδὲ σκαιὸν οὐδ’ ἐπιλήσμονα· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene1)

Synonyms

  1. hard

  2. poor

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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