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ἀραιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀραιός ἀραιά̄ ἀραιόν

Structure: ἀραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. thin, lean, narrow, slight, slender
  2. not dense, of loose texture, porous
  3. with intervals, intermittent
  4. infrequent, scanty, few and far between
  5. (feminine substantive) flank, belly

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἀραιός ἀραιᾱ́ ἀραιόν
Genitive ἀραιοῦ ἀραιᾶς ἀραιοῦ
Dative ἀραιῷ ἀραιᾷ ἀραιῷ
Accusative ἀραιόν ἀραιᾱ́ν ἀραιόν
Vocative ἀραιέ ἀραιᾱ́ ἀραιόν
DualN/A/V ἀραιώ ἀραιᾱ́ ἀραιώ
G/D ἀραιοῖν ἀραιαῖν ἀραιοῖν
PluralNominative ἀραιοί ἀραιαί ἀραιά
Genitive ἀραιῶν ἀραιῶν ἀραιῶν
Dative ἀραιοῖς ἀραιαῖς ἀραιοῖς
Accusative ἀραιούς ἀραιᾱ́ς ἀραιά
Vocative ἀραιοί ἀραιαί ἀραιά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀραιός ἀραιοῦ ἀραιώτερος ἀραιωτεροῦ ἀραιώτατος ἀραιωτατοῦ
Adverb ἀραιώς ἀραιώτερον ἀραιώτατα

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

  • πόρων ἢ συνεκπίπτει διὰ τῶν ἀραιῶν, οὕτωσ ἡ κολακεία τῆσ φιλίασ εἰσ πᾶν πάθοσ καὶ πᾶν κίνημα καὶ χρείαν καὶ συνήθειαν ἑαυτὴν καταμιγνύουσα δυσχώριστόσ ἐστιν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 4 7:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν πυκνὰ τῶν σωμάτων, σίδηροσ, χαλκόσ, ἄργυροσ, χρυσόσ, ἀποστέγει καὶ φθείρεται καὶ τήκεται, πάσχοντα τῷ προσμάχεσθαι καὶ ἀντερείδειν τῶν δ’ ἀραιῶν καὶ πολυπόρων καὶ χαλώντων ὑπὸ μανότητοσ ἀψαυστὶ διεκθεῖ, καθάπερ ἱματίων καὶ ξύλων αὐών· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 22:1)
  • τοσῶνδε κρατῆρ’ ἐν δόμοισ κακῶν ὅδε πλήσασ ἀραίων αὐτὸσ ἐκπίνει μολών. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 7:3)

Synonyms

  1. thin

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