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ἄσημος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσημος

Structure: ἀσημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sh=ma

Sense

  1. without mark or sign, uncoined, without device
  2. giving no sign, unintelligible
  3. leaving no mark, indistinct, inarticulate, unintelligible, unperceived, unnoticed
  4. of no mark, unknown, obscure

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

  • ἡνίκα δ̓ ἂν ἔτεκε τὰ πρόβατα, οὐκ ἐτίθει. ἐγένετο δὲ τὰ μὲν ἄσημα τοῦ Λάβαν, τά δὲ ἐπίσημα τοῦ Ἰακώβ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 30:42)
  • ὁ δὲ μάγοσ ἐν τοσούτῳ δᾷδα καιομένην ἔχων οὐκέτ’ ἠρεμαίᾳ τῇ φωνῇ, παμμέγεθεσ δέ, ὡσ οἱο͂́σ τε ἦν, ἀνακραγὼν δαίμονάσ τε ὁμοῦ πάντασ ἐπεβοᾶτο καὶ Ποινὰσ καὶ Ἐρινύασ καὶ νυχίαν Ἑκάτην καὶ ἐπαινὴν Περσεφόνειαν, παραμιγνὺσ ἅμα βαρβαρικά τινα καὶ ἄσημα ὀνόματα καὶ πολυσύλλαβα. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 9:7)
  • ἃ δ’ ἔστ’ ἄσημα κοὐ σαφῶσ γιγνώσκομεν, ἐσ πῦρ βλέποντεσ καὶ κατὰ σπλάγχνων πτυχὰσ μάντεισ προσημαίνουσιν οἰωνῶν τ’ ἄπο. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 3:7)
  • ἰδού, τάδ’ οὐκ ἄσημα πνεύματ’ αἴρεται· (Euripides, episode4)
  • τῷ δ’ ἀθλίασ ἄσημα περιβαίνει βοῆσ ἑρ́ποντι μᾶλλον ἆσσον, οἰμώξασ δ’ ἔποσ ἱήσι δυσθρήνητον· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:11)

Synonyms

  1. giving no sign

  2. of no mark

Related

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

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