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ἄπρατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπρατος ἄπρατη ἄπρατον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + πρατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pipra/skw

Sense

  1. unsold, unsaleable

Examples

  • ἄπρατον γὰρ εἶναι τὸν ῥῶπον. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 14:2)
  • ἄλλωσ τε καὶ τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ δημευθὲν ἄπρατον ἦν πλεῖν ἢ τρία ἔτη. (Lysias, Speeches, 9:1)
  • ὁ δὲ οὐδὲν ἄπρατον ἔχων μέροσ τοῦ σώματοσ, ὡσ ὢν Ἀριστείδησ, ὁ δίκαιοσ ἐπικαλούμενοσ, δυσχεραίνει καὶ καταπτύει δωροδοκίασ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 232)

Derived

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

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