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ἄθερμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθερμος

Structure: ἀθερμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without heat, want of heat

Examples

  • ὀνομάζουσι δὲ θέρμην τήνδε· ἢν δὲ ὁ πόνοσ ἐν τοῖσι νεύροισι εἴσω μίμνῃ, ξυμπεπτώκῃ δὲ τὸ ἄρθρον ἄθερμον, μηδὲ ἐποιδέῃ, ψυχρὴν τήνδε φαίην ἔμμεναι, ἐφ’ ἧσ θερμῶν φαρμάκων ἐσ ἀνάκλησιν θέρμησ χρέοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 332)
  • οὐκοῦν εἰ καὶ τὸ ἄθερμον ἀναγκαῖον ἦν ἀνώλεθρον εἶναι, ὁπότε τισ ἐπὶ χιόνα θερμὸν ἐπάγοι, ὑπεξῄει ἂν ἡ χιὼν οὖσα σῶσ καὶ ἄτηκτοσ; (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 835:1)

Synonyms

  1. without heat

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

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