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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

  • ἔκειντο δ’ ἐπ’ ἀλλήλοισ ἀμαυροὶ καὶ ἄσημοι καὶ οὐδὲν ἔτι τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν καλῶν φυλάττοντεσ. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 15:4)
  • οἱ ὀλίγοι δέ, ὁπόσοι πρὸσ τὸ πρῶτον κήρυγμα ἐκεῖνο ἀνῄεσαν, ἀφανεῖσ καὶ ἄσημοι, ἀναμιχθέντεσ τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἄλλων, καὶ λελήθασιν ἐν τῇ ὁμοιότητι τῶν ἄλλων σχημάτων. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 42:5)
  • Καινίνη μὲν δὴ καὶ Ἄντεμνα πόλεισ οὐκ ἄσημοι γένοσ ἔχουσαι τὸ Ἑλληνικόν, Ἀβοριγῖνεσ γὰρ αὐτὰσ ἀφελόμενοι τοὺσ Σικελοὺσ κατέσχον, Οἰνώτρων μοῖρα τῶν ἐξ Ἀρκαδίασ ἀφικομένων, ὡσ εἴρηταί μοι πρότερον, μετὰ τόνδε τὸν πόλεμον ἀποικίαι Ῥωμαίων γεγένηντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 35 10:1)
  • εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ θῆραι πλείουσ ἐλεφάντων καὶ πόλεισ ἄσημοι καὶ νησία πρὸ τῆσ παραλίασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 26:2)
  • εἶτ’ ἄλλοι ἄσημοι τόποι. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 18:10)

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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