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ἀργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀργός ἀργόν

Structure: ἀργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. from a)ergo/s (부정 접두사 a, E)/rgw)

Sense

  1. not working the ground, living without labour, inactive, slothful, idle, lazy, idle at, free from
  2. lying fallow or untilled, unemployed, yielding no return
  3. not done, left undone, among things neglected

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἀργός ά̓ργον
Genitive ἀργοῦ ά̓ργου
Dative ἀργῷ ά̓ργῳ
Accusative ἀργόν ά̓ργον
Vocative ἀργέ ά̓ργον
DualN/A/V ἀργώ ά̓ργω
G/D ἀργοῖν ά̓ργοιν
PluralNominative ἀργοί ά̓ργα
Genitive ἀργῶν ά̓ργων
Dative ἀργοῖς ά̓ργοις
Accusative ἀργούς ά̓ργα
Vocative ἀργοί ά̓ργα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀργός ἀργοῦ ἀργότερος ἀργοτεροῦ ἀργότατος ἀργοτατοῦ
Adverb ά̓ργως ἀργότερον ἀργότατα

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

  • τῶν δὲ Γράγχων οὐδέτεροσ μὲν ἤρξατο σφαγῆσ ἐμφυλίου, Γάιοσ δὲ λέγεται μηδὲ βαλλόμενοσ ὁρμῆσαι πρὸσ ἄμυναν, ἀλλὰ λαμπρότατοσ ὢν ἐν τοῖσ πολεμικοῖσ ἀργότατοσ ἐν τῇ στάσει γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi, chapter 4 2:1)
  • κολάσαντοσ δέ τινοσ ἰσχυρῶσ ἀκόλουθον, ἤρετο τί χαλεπαίνοι τῷ θεράποντι, ὅτι, ἔφη, ὀψοφαγίστατόσ τε ὢν βλακότατόσ ἐστι καὶ φιλαργυρώτατοσ ὢν ἀργότατοσ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 13 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. not done

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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