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ἄσιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσιτος

Structure: ἀσιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without food, fasting

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

  • φθόγγουσ δ’ ἀλύρουσ θρηνοῦμεν ἐπὰν μηδὲν ἔχωμεν χρῶμα δ’ ἀσίτων ἡμῶν ὄντων γίνεται ὠχρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 44 2:2)
  • ἐρωμένουσ περιάγεσθαι ξυρουμένουσ τὴν ὑπήνην καὶ τὸν ὄρρον τοὺσ ἀκολουθοῦντασ ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ μετὰ σοφιστῶν, νὴ Δία, λεπτῶν, ἀσίτων, σκυτίνων, ὁ κατὰ τὸν Ἀντιφάνην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 19 2:1)
  • ἢ τί ποτε τὸν σπουδαῖον ἀκολουθεῖν ἐρεῖσ ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ μετὰ σοφιστῶν, νὴ Δία, λεπτῶν, ἀσίτων, συκίνων, λέγονθ’ ὅτι τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτ’ οὐκ ἔστιν, εἴπερ γίνεται, οὐδ’ ἔστι γάρ πω γινόμενον ὃ γίνεται, οὐτ’ εἰ πρότερον ἦν, ἔστιν ὅ γε νῦν γίνεται, ἔστιν γὰρ οὐκ ὂν οὐδέν ὃ δὲ μὴ γέγονέ πω, οὐκ ἔσθ’ ἑώσπερ γέγονε, ὅ γε μή γέγονέ πω. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 54 3:3)
  • ἐὰν δὲ μὴ τύχῃσ διδασκάλου τοῦ Διὸσ ἢ ἄλλου τοιούτου, ταχὺ καὶ σαφῶσ φράζοντοσ ἃ δεῖ ποιεῖν,οὐδέν σοι πλέον, οὐδὲ ἂν ὅλον κατατρίψῃσ τὸν βίον ἀγρυπνῶν τε καὶ ἀσιτῶν παρὰ τοῖσ κακοδαίμοσι σοφισταῖσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 45:2)

Synonyms

  1. without food

Related

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

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