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ἀστάλακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀστάλακτος ἀστάλακτη ἀστάλακτον

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

Etym.: stala/ssw

Sense

  1. not dripping

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

  • ἀμοιρεῖ δ’ οὔτε ὕδατοσ οὔτε φωτόσ, ἀλλὰ πηγὴ μέν ἡδίστου νάματοσ ὑπορρεῖ παρὰ τὸν κρημνόν, αὐτοφυεῖσ δὲ ῥωχμοὶ τῆσ πέτρασ ᾗ μάλιστα περιπίπτει τὸ φῶσ ἔξωθεν ὑπολαμβάνουσι, καὶ καταλάμπεται ἡμέρασ τὸ χωρίον, ὁ δ’ ἐντὸσ ἀὴρ ἀστάλακτοσ καὶ καθαρόσ, πυκνότητι τῆσ πέτρασ τὸ νοτερὸν καὶ ἀποτηκόμενον εἰσ τὴν πηγὴν ἐκπιεζούσησ. (Plutarch, chapter 4 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. not dripping

Similar forms

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

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