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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

  • Πυθοδήλου δέ τινοσ ἀσώτου μνημονεύει Ἀξιόνικοσ ἐν Τυρρηνῷ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 611)
  • καὶ τοῦ ἀσώτου ὡσαύτωσ λαφύκτησ μὲν ὁ ἐν τῷ ἀτάκτωσ ἀναλίσκειν, ἀλόγιστοσ δὲ ὁ ἐν τῷ μὴ ὑπομένειν τὴν ἀπὸ λογισμοῦ λύπην. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 91:1)
  • εἰ δ’ ὑποβαλλόμενοι κλέπτουσι μύθουσ οἱ μεγάλοι βασιλῆσ ἢ τᾶσ ἀσώτου Σισυφιδᾶν γενεᾶσ, μὴ μή, ἄναξ, ἔθ’ ὧδ’ ἐφάλοισ κλισίαισ ὄμμ’ ἔχων κακὰν φάτιν ἄρῃ. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • θεασάμενοσ ἐπὶ ἀσώτου οἰκίᾳ ἐπιγεγραμμένον, "πράσιμοσ," "ᾔδειν," εἶπεν, "ὅτι οὕτω κραιπαλῶσα ῥᾳδίωσ ἐξεμέσοισ τὸν κεκτημένον. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 28:3)
  • προέρχεται δὲ μεθύων ἐκ τοῦ βασιλείου Οὐιτέλλιοσ καὶ δαψιλέστερον ὥσπερ ἐν ἐσχάτοισ τῆσ ἀσώτου τραπέζησ κεκορεσμένοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 739:1)

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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