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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

  • ἀρχόμενοσ μὲν οὖν τῆσ γραφῆσ πάνυ ἀπόρῳ ἐντεύξεσθαι ᾤμην τῷ προβλήματι, προῖόντι δὲ πολλὰ προὐφάνη τὰ λεκτέα. (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 4:1)
  • καὶ τόδ’ αἰσχρόν, ἀσπίδασ θύρσοισι βακχῶν ἐκτρέπειν χαλκηλάτουσ ἀπόρῳ γε τῷδε συμπεπλέγμεθα ξένῳ, ὃσ οὔτε πάσχων οὔτε δρῶν σιγήσεται. (Euripides, episode, trochees 10:16)
  • πόθον μὲν εἶναι Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἐκπεριπλῶσαι τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν ἀπὸ Ἰνδῶν ἔστε ἐπὶ τὴν Περσικήν, ὀκνέειν δὲ αὐτὸν τοῦ τε πλόου τὸ μῆκοσ καὶ μή τινι ἄρα χώρῃ ἐρήμῃ ἐγκύρσασ ἢ ὁρ́μων ἀπόρῳ ἢ οὐ συμμέτρωσ ἐχούσῃ τῶν ὡρέων, οὕτω δὴ διαφθαρῇ αὐτῷ ὁ στόλοσ, καὶ οὐ φαύλη κηλὶσ αὕτη τοῖσιν ἔργοισιν αὐτοῦ τοῖσι μεγάλοισιν ἐπιγενομένη τὴν πᾶσαν εὐτυχίην αὐτῷ ἀφανίσῃ· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 20 1:2)
  • καὶ ὁρμίζονται πρὸσ Σισιδώνῃ, πολιχνίῳ σμικρῷ καὶ πάντων ἀπόρῳ, ὅτι μὴ ὕδατοσ καὶ ἰχθύων· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 37 8:3)
  • ἐλπίδι τε ἧσσον πιστεύει, ἧσ ἐν τῷ ἀπόρῳ ἡ ἰσχύσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 467)
  • οὐ μὰ τὸν Δία, ὦ Σίμων, ἀλλὰ καὶ σφόδρα ἀπορῶ οὕστινασ καὶ εὑρ́οισ εἰπεῖν. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 31:7)
  • κᾆτ’ ἐπειδὰν ὦ μόνοσ, στένω κέχηνα σκορδινῶμαι πέρδομαι, ἀπορῶ γράφω παρατίλλομαι λογίζομαι, ἀποβλέπων ἐσ τὸν ἀγρὸν εἰρήνησ ἐρῶν, στυγῶν μὲν ἄστυ τὸν δ’ ἐμὸν δῆμον ποθῶν, ὃσ οὐδεπώποτ’ εἶπεν, ἄνθρακασ πρίω, οὐκ ὄξοσ οὐκ ἔλαιον, οὐδ’ ᾔδει "πρίω," ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ ἔφερε πάντα χὠ πρίων ἀπῆν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 1:16)
  • ἀπορῶ γὰρ ὁπότερον εἰπὼν ἀπολάβοιμι. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 21:11)

Synonyms

  1. hard

  2. poor

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