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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

  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ οἱ πόλεμοι καὶ αἱ στρατεῖαι, τὰ δὲ καὶ αἱ πολυτέλειαι θρασεῖσ αὐτοὺσ εἶναι προετρέποντο καὶ ζῆν μὴ κοσμίωσ, ἀλλ’ ἀσώτωσ καὶ τοῖσ λῃσταῖσ παραπλησίωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 62 3:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ πράγματοσ ὁρ́ον οὐκ ἔχοντοσ, ἀλλὰ πόρρω νεμομένου καὶ προϊόντοσ ἐπὶ πολλούσ, αὐτὸσ μὲν ἠδόξει, φθόνον δὲ καὶ μῖσοσ εἶχεν Οὐίνιοσ, ὡσ τοῖσ μὲν ἄλλοισ ἅπασιν ἀνελεύθερον παρέχων τὸν ἡγεμόνα καὶ μικρολόγον, αὐτὸσ δὲ χρώμενοσ ἀσώτωσ καὶ λαμβάνων πάντα καὶ πιπράσκων. (Plutarch, Galba, chapter 16 3:1)
  • ὡσ δῆλόν ἐστιν ἐπὶ τῶν γυναικῶν, ὅταν κύωσι, καὶ λίθουσ καὶ γῆν προσφερομένων διὸ καὶ τῶν νοσούντων ταῖσ ὀρέξεσιν οἱ χαρίεντεσ ἰατροὶ προΐσασι τοὺσ ἀσώτωσ ἢ σωτηρίωσ ἔχοντασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 26 6:1)
  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ οὐχ οὕτω μετρίωσ ζῇ Κρίτων ὥστε παρ’ ἑτέρου οἰκίαν ὠνεῖσθαι, ἀλλ’ οὕτωσ πολυτελῶσ καὶ ἀσώτωσ ὥστε πρὸσ τοῖσ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἀναλίσκειν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 70:3)
  • φασὶ δέ τινεσ καὶ ἀσώτωσ αὐτὸν βιῶναι, γυναικείαισ τ’ ἐσθῆσι χρώμενον καὶ κωμάζοντα ἑκάστοτε, ὅθεν Βάταλον ἐπικληθῆναι· (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 65:2)

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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