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ἄθηρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθηρος

Structure: ἀθηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qh/r

Sense

  1. without wild beasts or game, absence of game

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

  • ὑπὲρ δὲ τῆσ ὀφρύησ τὸ πρὸσ νότου καὶ ἐσ μεσόγαιαν τῆσ Λιβύησ ἔρημοσ καὶ ἄνυδροσ καὶ ἄθηροσ καὶ ἄνομβροσ καὶ ἄξυλοσ ἐστὶ ἡ χώρη, καὶ ἰκμάδοσ ἐστὶ ἐν αὐτῇ οὐδέν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 185 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. without wild beasts or game

Related

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

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