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ἄθαπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθαπτος ἄθαπτη ἄθαπτον

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

Etym.: qa/ptw

Sense

  1. unburied
  2. unworthy of burial

Examples

  • Ἄκλαυστοι καὶ ἄθαπτοι, ὁδοιπόρε, τῷδ’ ἐπὶ νώτῳ Θεσσαλίησ τρισσαὶ κείμεθα μυριάδεσ, Αἰτωλῶν δμηθέντεσ ὑπ’ Ἄρεοσ ἠδὲ Λατίνων, οὓσ Τίτοσ εὐρείησ ἤγαγ’ ἀπ’ ’ Ἰταλίησ, Ἠμαθίῃ μέγα πῆμα. (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 9 2:1)
  • Ἄκλαυστοι καὶ ἄθαπτοι, ὁδοιπόρε, τῷδ’ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ Θεσσαλίασ τρισσαὶ κείμεθα μυριάδεσ, Ἠμαθίῃ μέγα πῆμα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2471)

Synonyms

  1. unburied

  2. unworthy of burial

Related

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

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