Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄρρητος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄρρητος ἄρρητη ἄρρητον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ρρητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unspoken, unsaid
  2. not to be spoken, not to be divulged, sacred
  3. unutterable, inexpressible, horrible, "deeds without a name, "
  4. shameful to be spoken, "dicenda tacenda
  5. irrational quantities, surds

Examples

  • θαῦμα βίου, θαμβῶ σε τὸ μυρίον, οὑ δὲ ματεύω σὴν στάσιν ἀρρήτῳ ταῦτα μέμηλε φύσει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 73 1:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ ἕτερον οἶδα λόγον ἀκούων, ὡσ τῆσ μὲν ἑορτῆσ τῷ Ποσειδῶνι ἀγομένησ καὶ τοῦ δρόμου τῶν ἵππων τούτῳ τῷ θεῷ γινομένου, τοῦ δὲ καταγείου βωμοῦ δαίμονι ἀρρήτῳ τινὶ βουλευμάτων κρυφίων ἡγεμόνι καὶ φύλακι κατασκευασθέντοσ ὕστερον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 31 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. unutterable

  2. shameful to be spoken

Related

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

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