Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπρόσκεπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπρόσκεπτος ἀπρόσκεπτη ἀπρόσκεπτον

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

Etym.: proskope/w

Sense

  1. unforeseen
  2. improvident

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

  • τῶν μὲν τοίνυν ἰδιωτῶν τοὺσ μετὰ τοῦ παθεῖν μανθάνοντασ ἀπροσκέπτουσ ὀνομάζομεν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 19:4)

Synonyms

  1. unforeseen

  2. improvident

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

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