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ἀθέσφατος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: athesphatos

Principal Part: ἀθέσφατος ἀθέσφατη ἀθέσφατον

Structure: ἀθεσφατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. beyond even a god's power to express: ineffable, aweful, marvellous in quantity

Examples

  • αἵδε δὲ νύκτες ἀθέσφατοι: (Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 49:3)
  • νῦν δ αἱ μὲν γίγνονται ἀθέσφατοι, οὐδέ κεν ἄλλως ἀνδρί γ ὑποσταχύοιτο βοῶν γένος εὐρυμετώπων: (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 34:8)

Related

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동사

부사

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

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