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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

  • φαῦλαι δὲ τῶν μεγάλων, ὅσαι τὰ μέλη ἀπαγεῖσ καὶ ἀσύμμετροι· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 4 3:2)
  • περὶ δὴ τῶν ἀιδίων οὐδεὶσ βουλεύεται, οἱο͂ν περὶ τοῦ κόσμου ἢ τῆσ διαμέτρου καὶ τῆσ πλευρᾶσ, ὅτι ἀσύμμετροι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 41:1)
  • εὐπαγεῖσ δὲ πᾶσαι καὶ μὴ ἀσύμμετροι τὰ πάχη πρὸσ τὰ μήκη. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 8:5)
  • χείρουσ δὲ καὶ πλείουσ αἱ τοιαίδε, μικραί, γρυπαί, χαροποί, μυωποί, ἄμορφοι, σκληραί, ἀσθενεῖσ, ψιλαί, ὑψηλαί, ἀσύμμετροι, ἄψυχοι, ἄρρινεσ, οὐκ εὔποδεσ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 3:1)
  • αἱ δὲ ὑψηλαὶ καὶ αἱ ἀσύμμετροι ἀσύντακτα ἔχουσαι τὰ σώματα βαρέωσ διαφοιτῶσιν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 4:7)

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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