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ἄθεος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθεος ἄθεος ἄθεον

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

Sense

  1. without gods
  2. rejecting or disdaining the belief in the gods (especially officially sanctioned gods)
  3. generally: godless, secular
  4. abandoned by the gods
  5. (lexicography) not derived from a theonym

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

  • ἐμοὶ μὲν γὰρ δοκεῖτε τάχιστα ἂν οὕτωσ ἀσεβεῖσ αὐτοὶ καὶ ἄθεοι γενέσθαι, τῶν περιλοίπων θεῶν τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον ὑμῖν ἐκ τῆσ χώρασ ἀποξενωθέντων· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 2:6)
  • οἱ γοῦν ἄθεοι προσαγορευθέντεσ οὗτοι, Θεόδωροι καὶ Διαγόραι καὶ Ἵππωνεσ, οὐκ ἐτόλμησαν εἰπεῖν τὸ θεῖον ὅτι φθαρτόν ἐστιν, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν ὡσ ἔστι τι ἄφθαρτον τοῦ μὲν ἀφθάρτου τὴν ὕπαρξιν μὴ ἀπολείποντεσ τοῦ δὲ θεοῦ τὴν πρόληψιν φυλάττοντεσ. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 31 8:2)
  • ‐ ὅτι ἦτε τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ χωρὶσ Χριστοῦ, ἀπηλλοτριωμένοι τῆσ πολιτείασ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ξένοι τῶν διαθηκῶν τῆσ ἐπαγγελίασ, ἐλπίδα μὴ ἔχοντεσ καὶ ἄθεοι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ. (PROS EFESIOUS, chapter 1 40:1)
  • τῶν δὲ πρὸσ τῇ διακεκαυμένῃ τινὲσ καὶ ἄθεοι νομίζονται, οὕσ γε καὶ τὸν ἥλιόν φασιν ἐχθαίρειν καὶ κακῶσ λέγειν ἐπειδὰν προσίδωσιν ἀνίσχοντα, ὡσ καίοντα καὶ πολεμοῦντα αὐτοῖσ, καταφεύγειν τε εἰσ τὰ ἕλη. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 2 5:9)

Synonyms

  1. without gods

  2. abandoned by the gods

Related

Derived

  • θεός (divine (used only in comparative: θεώτερος ‎))

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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