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ἀπόρρητος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόρρητος ἀπόρρητη ἀπόρρητον

Structure: ἀπορρητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)perw=

Sense

  1. forbidden, though it was forbidden, prohibited exports, contraband articles
  2. not to be spoken, that should not be spoken, secret, dicenda tacenda, a state-secret
  3. ineffable
  4. unfit to be spoken, abominable

Examples

  • τὰ μὲν οὖν ἐσ τὴν ῥοιὰν ‐ ἀπορρητότεροσ γάρ ἐστιν ὁ λόγοσ ‐ ἀφείσθω μοι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. not to be spoken

  2. ineffable

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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