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ἀργυρώνητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀργυρώνητος ἀργυρώνητη ἀργυρώνητον

Structure: ἀργυρωνητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: w)ne/omai

Sense

  1. bought with silver

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

  • ὅτι ταὐτόν ἐστι τὸ ἕπεσθαι θεῷ καὶ τὸ πείθεσθαι λόγῳ, νόμιζε τὴν εἰσ ἄνδρασ ἐχ παίδων ἀγωγὴν οὐκ ἀρχῆσ εἶναι τοῖσ εὖ φρονοῦσιν ἀποβολήν, ἀλλὰ μεταβολὴν ἄρχοντοσ, ἀντὶ μισθωτοῦ τινοσ ἢ ἀργυρωνήτου θεῖον ἡγεμόνα τοῦ βίου λαμβάνουσι τὸν λόγον, ᾧ τοὺσ ἑπομένουσ ἄξιόν ἐστι μόνουσ 9 ἐλευθέρουσ ΗρόδοτοσΙ Ι 8. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 1 5:1)
  • καὶ τὰ γεννώμενα πάντα τρέφουσιν ἐξ ἀνάγκησ ἕνεκα τῆσ πολυανθρωπίασ, ὡσ ταύτησ μέγιστα συμβαλλομένησ πρὸσ εὐδαιμονίαν χώρασ τε καὶ πόλεων, νόθον δ’ οὐδένα τῶν γεννηθέντων νομίζουσιν, οὐδ’ ἂν ἐξ ἀργυρωνήτου μητρὸσ γεννηθῇ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 80 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. bought with silver

Related

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

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