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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

  • "̓ γέλωτοσ οὖν ἐπιρραγέντοσ παρῆν ἡ θεατροτορύνη Μέλισσα καὶ ἡ κυνάμυια Νίκιον αὗται δ’ ἦσαν τῶν οὐκ ἀσήμων ἑταιρίδων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 4522)
  • καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν ὤφθη Ιοὔλιοσ Ἄττικοσ τῶν οὐκ ἀσήμων ἐν τοῖσ δορυφόροισ στρατευόμενοσ γυμνῷ τῷ ξίφει προσφερόμενοσ καὶ βοῶν ἀνῃρηκέναι τὸν Καίσαροσ πολέμιον ὠσάμενοσ δὲ διὰ τῶν προεστώτων ἔδειξε τῷ Γάλβᾳ τὸ ξίφοσ ᾑμαγμένον. (Plutarch, Galba, chapter 26 1:2)
  • ἦν δὲ ἀβέλτεροσ ἡ φιλοτιμία, παρὰ τοσούτουσ καὶ τηλικούτουσ ἀγῶνασ ἑνὸσ ἔργου καὶ μιᾶσ νίκησ ἀγαπωμένησ, ἐν ᾗ Γεράνδαν τινὰ τῶν ἀσήμων Σπαρτιατῶν καὶ τεσσαράκοντα μετ’ αὐτοῦ πεσεῖν, ἄλλο δὲ οὐδὲν μέγα πραχθῆναι λέγουσι. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 25 6:2)
  • τοιαῦτα παιδὸσ τοῦδ’ ἐμάνθανον πάρα, φθίνοντ’ ἀσήμων ὀργίων μαντεύματα. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode17)
  • τοὺσ ἐπιφανεῖσ κατὰ γένοσ καὶ δι’ ἀρετὴν ἐπαινουμένουσ καὶ χρήμασιν ὡσ ἐν τοῖσ τότε καιροῖσ εὐπόρουσ, οἷσ ἤδη παῖδεσ ἦσαν, διώριζεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἀσήμων καὶ ταπεινῶν καὶ ἀπόρων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 8 1:2)

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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