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ἀσύμμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσύμμετρος

Structure: ἀσυμμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. having no common measure, with
  2. unsymmetrical, disproportionate

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο οὐ χεῖρον εἰδέναι, ἤν τισ αὐτῶν χρυσοῦσ μὲν ᾖ καὶ πολυτάλαντοσ τὴν ὁλκήν, οὐκ ἀκριβὴσ δὲ τὴν ἐργασίαν, ἀλλὰ κομιδῇ ἰδιωτικὸσ καὶ ἀσύμμετροσ, πρὸ τῶν χαλκῶν τῶν Μύρωνοσ καὶ Πολυκλείτου καὶ τῶν Φειδίου καὶ Ἀλκαμένουσ λιθίνων ^ καθεδεῖται ἢ προτιμοτέραν χρὴ νομίζειν εἶναι τὴν τέχνην; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 7:4)
  • Ἀλλὰ δὴ ἀσύμμετροσ ἔστω ἡ Α τῇ Β μήκει· (Euclid, Elements, book 10, type Prop 1180)
  • λέγω, ὅτι ἀσύμμετρόσ ἐστιν ἡ Α τῇ Β μήκει. (Euclid, Elements, book 10, type Prop 1186)
  • ἀσύμμετροσ ἄρα ἐστὶν ἡ Α τῇ Δ μήκει. (Euclid, Elements, book 10, type Prop 1214)
  • ἀσύμμετροσ δέ ἐστιν ἡ Α τῇ Δ μήκει· (Euclid, Elements, book 10, type Prop 1217)

Synonyms

  1. having no common measure

Related

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

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