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ἀραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀραῖος

Structure: ἀραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)ra/

Sense

  1. prayed to or entreated
  2. prayed against, accursed, laden with a curse or curses, under a curse
  3. cursing, bringing mischief upon

Examples

  • "ἀραιῷ μὲν γὰρ ὄντι καὶ συγκεχυμένῳ μὴ μένειν ἀλλὰ σφάλλεσθαι προσήκει· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 5 1:8)
  • ἀραιῷ δὲ καὶ μαλακῷ πνεύματι πλεύσαντεσ ἡμέρασ δώδεκα, τῇ τρισκαιδεκάτῃ κατὰ Πάχυνον ἦσαν, ἄκραν τῆσ Σικελίασ, καὶ Πρῶτοσ μὲν ὁ κυβερνήτησ κατὰ τάχοσ ἐκέλευσεν ἀποβαίνειν, ὡσ, ἂν ἀποσπασθῶσι τῆσ γῆσ καὶ τὴν ἄκραν ἑκόντεσ ἀφῶσι, πολλὰσ ἡμέρασ καὶ νύκτασ ἐν τῷ πελάγει τριβησομένουσ, ὡρ́ᾳ θέρουσ νότον περιμένοντασ. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 25 2:1)
  • διανταίαν λέγεισ πλαγὰν δόμοισι καὶ σώμασιν πεπλαγμένουσ, ἐννέπω ἀναυδάτῳ μένει ἀραίῳ τ’ ἐκ πατρὸσ <οὐ> διχόφρονι πότμῳ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 22)
  • "Κόσμοσ ἐστὶ περιοχή ιτσ οὐρανοῦ, ἄστρα τε καὶ γῆν καὶ πάντα τὰ φαινόμενα περιέχουσα, ἀποτομὴν ἔχουσα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀπείρου καὶ λήγουσα [καὶ καταλήγουσα ἐν πέρατι ἢ ἀραιῷ ἢ πυκνῷ καὶ οὗ λυομένου πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ σύγχυσιν λήψεται. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 88:2)

Synonyms

  1. prayed to or entreated

  2. prayed against

Derived

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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