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ἀθρόος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀθρόος ἀθρόα ἀθρόον

Structure: ἀθρο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: 계사 a . qro/os

Sense

  1. in crowds or masses, crowded together, in close order, close together
  2. taken together, at once, as a whole, assembled, one, all by a single vote, all at once
  3. multitudinous

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

  • καὶ μὴν καὶ τὸν ἱδρῶτα συνέχειν δοκεῖ ἡ κόνισ ἀθρόον ἐκχεόμενον ἐπιπαττομένη, καὶ ἐπὶ πολὺ διαρκεῖν ποιεῖ τὴν δύναμιν, καὶ κώλυμα γίγνεται μὴ βλάπτεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνέμων ἀραιοῖσ τότε καὶ ἀνεῳγόσιν τοῖσ σώμασιν ἐμπιπτόντων. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 29:3)
  • εἰ δὲ μέγα τὸ καῦμα ἐπιφλέγοι, ᾠὸν ἐμβαλόντα ἐσ τὴν χεῖρα καὶ ἀνατείναντα τῆσ κυνὸσ τὸ στόμα καθεῖναι, ὡσ ἀθρόον καταπιεῖν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 13 3:1)
  • εἰ δὲ πίοι ἀθρόον ὑπερασθμαίνουσα, καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀσφαλέσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 14 4:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν δὴ καὶ μέγιστον τῶν ἐν στρατηγίᾳ ἔργων παραλαβόντα πλῆθοσ ἀνθρώπων ἀθρόον καὶ ἄτακτον ἐσ τάξιν καὶ κόσμον καταστῆσαι· (Arrian, chapter 5 3:1)
  • πῶσ ἂν ὡσ ξουθόπτεροσ μέλισσα συνενέγκαιμ’ ἂν ἐκ πάντων γόουσ, ἐσ ἓν δ’ ἐνεγκοῦσ’ ἀθρόον ἀποδοίην δάκρυ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 1:24)
  • ἢ κατὰ μικρὸν μὲν δωροδοκεῖν, ἁθρόον δ’ οὐκ ἂν προσδέξασθαι τοσοῦτον λῆμμα; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 53:3)

Synonyms

  1. in crowds or masses

  2. multitudinous

Similar forms

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

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