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ἄσικχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσικχος ἄσικχη ἄσικχον

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

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. not nice as to food

Examples

  • πρὸσ δὲ τὸν οἶνον ἅπερ Εὐριπίδησ πρὸσ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην διαλεκτέον εἰήσ μοι, μέτριον δέ πωσ εἰήσ, μηδ’ ἀπολείποισ καὶ γὰρ ποτῶν ὠφελιμώτατόν ἐστι καὶ φαρμάκων ἥδιστον καὶ ὄψων ἀσικχότατον, ἂν τύχῃ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸν καιρὸν εὐκρασίασ μᾶλλον ἢ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸ ὕδωρ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 19 2:1)

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

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