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ἄσωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄσωτος

Structure: ἀσωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sw/zw

Sense

  1. having no hope of safety, abandoned, profligate
  2. bringing ruin on, fatal

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

  • οὐ μόνον δὲ τοῦτον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν δανειστὴν Γνίφωνα ἰδὼν στένοντα καὶ μεταγινώσκοντα ὅτι μὴ ἀπέλαυσε τῶν χρημάτων, ἀλλ’ ἄγευστοσ αὐτῶν ἀπέθανε τῷ ἀσώτῳ Ῥοδοχάρει τὴν οὐσίαν ἀπολιπών, ‐ οὗτοσ γὰρ ἄγχιστα ἦν αὐτῷ γένουσ καὶ πρῶτοσ ἐπὶ τὸν κλῆρον ἐκαλεῖτο κατὰ τὸν νόμον ‐ οὐκ εἶχον ὅπωσ καταπαύσω τὸν γέλωτα, καὶ μάλιστα μεμνημένοσ ὡσ ὠχρὸσ ἀεὶ καὶ αὐχμηρὸσ ἦν, φροντίδοσ τὸ μέτωπον ἀνάπλεωσ καὶ μόνοισ τοῖσ δακτύλοισ πλουτῶν, οἷσ τάλαντα καὶ μυριάδασ ἐλογίζετο, κατὰ μικρὸν συλλέγων τὰ μετ’ ὀλίγον ἐκχυθησόμενα πρὸσ τοῦ μακαρίου Ῥοδοχάρουσ. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 17:1)
  • τὸ μὲν ὅλον, συμβιῶναι δεξιὸσ καὶ συμπιεῖν ἱκανὸσ καὶ κωμάσαι μετὰ αὐλητρίδοσ ἐπιτήδειοσ ἐρῶντι καὶ ἀσώτῳ δεσπότῃ· (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 12:14)
  • Τιμοκλῆσ δ’ ἐν Ἐπιστολαῖσ καὶ ὡσ Δημοτίωνι τῷ ἀσώτῳ παρασιτοῦντοσ αὐτοῦ μνημονεύει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 42 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. bringing ruin on

Related

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

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