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

  • ὅτι τῦφοσ οὐκ ἔνεστιν, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ φίλοισ τοιοῦτὸσ εἰμ’, ἥδιστε, τύπτεσθαι μύδροσ, τύπτειν κεραυνόσ, ἐκτυφλοῦν τιν’ ἀστραπή, φέρειν τιν’ ἄρασ ἄνεμοσ, ἀποπνῖξαι βρόχοσ, θύρασ μοχλεύειν σεισμόσ, εἰσπηδᾶν ἀκρίσ, δειπνεῖν ἄκλητοσ μυῖα, μὴ ’ ξελθεῖν φρέαρ, ἄγχειν, φονεύειν, μαρτυρεῖν, ὅσ1’ ἂν μόνον τύχῃ τισ εἰπών, ταῦτ’ ἀπροσκέπτωσ ποεῖν ἅπαντα, καὶ καλοῦσὶ μ’ οἱ νεώτεροι διὰ ταῦτα πάντα σκηπτὸν ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν μέλει τῶν σκωμμάτων μοι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 35 1:1)
  • 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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