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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

  • ἀνεπτερωμένη δέ ἐστι καὶ ἄσωτοσ, ἐν οἴκῳ δὲ οὐχ ἡσυχάζουσιν οἱ πόδεσ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 7:11)
  • "ἀρκεῖν οὖν νομίζω, εἰ μὴ πάνυ ἄσωτοσ εἶ, τοσόνδε τι· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 20:8)
  • ἀλλὰ νῦν οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπωσ ἀθρόαν πεποίησαι τὴν μεταβολὴν ἐπιδαψιλευόμενοσ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ τέωσ φειδομένου ἄσωτοσ ἐν τοῖσ ἐπαίνοισ ἀναπέφηνασ. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 14:3)
  • Δοῦρισ δ’ ἐν ζ Μακεδονικῶν περὶ Πασικύπρου λέγων τοῦ ἐν Κύπρῳ βασιλέωσ ὅτι ἄσωτοσ ἦν γράφει καὶ τάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 631)
  • ἔτι δ’ ἄσωτοσ ὁ πρὸσ ἅπασαν δαπάνην ὑπερβάλλων, ἀνελεύθεροσ δὲ ὁ πρὸσ ἅπασαν ἐλλείπων· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 61:2)

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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