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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

  • διὰ γὰρ τὴν τῶν ἀθάπτων δυσωδίαν καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἑλῶν σηπεδόνα πρῶτον μὲν ἤρχετο τῆσ νόσου κατάρρουσ, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτ’ ἐγίνετο περὶ τὸν τράχηλον οἰδήματα· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 71 2:1)

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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