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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

  • μηδ’ ἄσωτον, αὐτὸσ ὢν ἀνελεύθεροσ. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 5 4:1)
  • Θεόπομποσ δ’ ἐν τῇ δεκάτῃ τῶν Φιλιππικῶν, ἀφ’ ἧσ τινεσ τὸ τελευταῖον μέροσ χωρίσαντεσ, ἐν ᾧ ἐστι τὰ περὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησι δημαγωγῶν, εὔβουλόν φησι τὸν δημαγωγὸν ἄσωτον γενέσθαι, τῇ λέξει δὲ ταύτῃ ἐχρήσατο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 61 1:4)
  • Ἀγαθαρχίδησ δ’ ὁ Κνίδιοσ ἐν τῇ ὀγδόῃ πρὸσ ταῖσ κ τῶν Εὐρωπιακῶν Γνώσιππον, φησίν, ἄσωτον γενόμενον ἐν τῇ Σπάρτῃ ἐκώλυον οἱ ἔφοροι συναναστρέφεσθαι τοῖσ νέοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 66 2:1)
  • ὁ μέντοι θαυμάσασ τοῦ Καπιτωλίου τὴν πολυτέλειαν, εἰ μίαν εἶδεν ἐν οἰκίᾳ Δομετιανοῦ στοὰν ἢ βασιλικὴν ἢ βαλανεῖον ἢ παλλακίδων δίαιταν, οἱο͂́ν ἐστι τὸ λεγόμενον Ἐπιχάρμου πρὸσ τὸν ἄσωτον, οὐ φιλάνθρωποσ τύ γ’ ἐσσ’· (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 15 5:1)
  • καὶ πρὸσ τὸν ἄσωτον οἰώνται λέγεσθαι καὶ πρὸσ τὸν αἰσχροκερδῆ καὶ πρὸσ τὸν ἀμελῆ καὶ ἀπαίδευτον πίνεισ, ἀρίστου πατρὸσ Ἑλλήνων γεγώσ, ἢ κυβεύεισ ἢ ὀρτυγοκοπεῖσ ἢ καπηλεύεισ ἢ τοκογλυφεῖσ, μηδὲν μέγα φρονῶν μηδ’ ἄξιον τῆσ εὐγενείασ; (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 13 7:1)

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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