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ἀστάθμητος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀστάθμητος ἀστάθμητη ἀστάθμητον

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

Etym.: staqma/omai

Sense

  1. unsteady, unstable, uncertain, uncertainty

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

  • ἀόριστον ἦν καὶ ἀστάθμητον, εἶθ’ ὡρίσθη πέρατοσ ἐγγενομένου καὶ εἴδουσ τῷ μεριστῷ καὶ παντοδαπῷ τῆσ κινήσεωσ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 27 2:1)
  • Πότερον οὖν τὰ μὲν ἄλλα πάντα πρὸσ ἀλήθειαν σκοπεῖ, τὴν δόξαν οὐδαμῇ προσφέρων ὡσ ψευδῆ τινα τῷ ὄντι καὶ ἀστάθμητον στάθμην καὶ κανόνα τοιοῦτον, ὁποῖον ἄρτι εἴρηκασ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:3)
  • Τὸ μὲν τοίνυν, ἔφη, τοῦ γένουσ καὶ τὸ τῶν προγόνων ἐῶμεν, ἐπειδὴ οὕτω σοι δοκεῖ ἀστάθμητον εἶναι· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 20:1)
  • ὁ δὲ δῆμόσ ἐστιν, ὥσπερ καὶ σὺ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν ἀρτιδίδακτοσ ὢν ἔμαθεσ, ἀστάθμητον ὥσπερ ἐν θαλάσσῃ κῦμα κινούμενον· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 2 12:5)
  • ἔπειτ’ εἰ μὴ τοῖσ ἤθεσι καὶ τοῖσ τρόποισ ἐξετάζουσι τοὺσ ἀξίουσ τῶν καλῶν, ἀλλὰ ταῖσ συντυχίαισ, ὁρῶντεσ ὡσ ἀστάθμητόν ἐστι πρᾶγμα εὐτυχία καὶ ἀγχίστροφον, καὶ οὐδενὶ ῥᾴδιον εἰπεῖν οὐδὲ τῶν πάνυ μακαρίων μέχρι τίνοσ αὐτῷ παρέσται χρόνου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 23 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. unsteady

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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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