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ἀσπούδαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσπούδαστος ἀσπούδαστη ἀσπούδαστον

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

Etym.: spouda/zw

Sense

  1. not to be zealously pursued, not worth pursuing

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

  • σὲ τὸν πρόθυμον ὄνθ’ ἃ μὴ χρεὼν ὁρᾶν σπεύδοντά τ’ ἀσπούδαστα, Πενθέα λέγω, ἔξιθι πάροιθε δωμάτων, ὄφθητί μοι, σκευὴν γυναικὸσ μαινάδοσ βάκχησ ἔχων, μητρόσ τε τῆσ σῆσ καὶ λόχου κατάσκοποσ· (Euripides, episode1)
  • διαλυθείσησ δὲ τῆσ βουλῆσ οἱ προσήκοντεσ κατὰ γένοσ ἑκατέρῳ, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων βουλευτῶν οἱ ἐντιμότατοι πρὸσ τὸν Λάρκιον ἀφικόμενοι πολλὰσ ἐποιοῦντο τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἄχρι πολλῆσ νυκτὸσ δεήσεισ διδάσκοντεσ, ὡσ ἐν ἐκείνῳ τὰσ ἐλπίδασ ἡ βουλὴ τέθειται πάσασ, καὶ τὸ ἀσπούδαστον αὐτοῦ περὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν πονηρὸν εἶναι τῷ κοινῷ λέγοντεσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 72 4:1)

Derived

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

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