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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

  • τοῦτον δὲ διαγαγὼν Δοσίθεοσ ὁ Δριμύλου λεγόμενοσ, τὸ γένοσ Ἰουδαῖοσ, ὕστερον δὲ μεταβαλὼν τὰ νόμιμα καὶ τῶν πατρίων δογμάτων ἀπηλλοτριωμένοσ, ἄσημόν τινα κατέκλινεν ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ, ὃν συνέβη κομίσασθαι τὴν ἐκείνου κόλασιν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 1:3)
  • ἐκστρατεύειν δ’ αὐτῷ μέλλοντι ἐκ τῆσ χώρασ, εἴ τίσ τι ἔχει ἄσημον ἀργύριον ἢ χρυσίον, κελεῦσαι ἐνέγκαι πρὸσ αὑτόν· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 96:1)
  • "ἐκείνου μὲν οὖν ἤκουσα οὐ κατὰ τὸ κοινὸν τοῖσ πολλοῖσ ἄσημόν τινα φωνήν, ἀλλά μοι καὶ ἔχρησεν ὁ Μέμνων αὐτὸσ ἀνοίξασ γε τὸ στόμα ἐν ἔπεσιν ἑπτά, καὶ εἴ γε μὴ περιττὸν ἦν, αὐτὰ ἂν ὑμῖν εἶπον τὰ ἔπη. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 26:12)
  • Ἐμοὶ δὲ γένοσ ἐστὶν οὐκ ἄσημον, ἀλλ’ ἐξ ἱερέων ἄνωθεν καταβεβηκόσ. (Flavius Josephus, 2:1)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ συναπτόμενον τούτῳ κῶλον, εἰ διαλύσειέ τισ αὐτοῦ τὴν δευτέραν συναλοιφὴν ἣ πεποίηκεν αὐτὸ ἄσημον ἐπισυνάπτουσα τῷ τρίτῳ κώλῳ, πεντάμετρον ἐλεγειακὸν ἔσται συντετελεσμένον τουτί μήτ’ ἰδίασ ἔχθρασ μηδεμιᾶσ ἕνεκα ὅμοιον τούτοισ κοῦραι ἐλαφρὰ ποδῶν ἴχνι’ ἀειράμεναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2534)

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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