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ἄτοκος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: atokos

Principal Part: ἄτοκος

Structure: ἀτοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. having never yet brought forth, never having had a child
  2. not bearing interest

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

  • τρίβων γὰρ οὐκ εἴμ, ἄτοκος οὖς ἐν τῷ πάρος. (Euripides, episode, anapests 8:25)
  • καὶ αὕτη τε ἔφεδρον βασιλέα Σπαρτιήτῃσι ἀπέφαινε, καὶ ἡ προτέρη γυνὴ τὸν πρότερον χρόνον ἄτοκος ἐοῦσα τότε κως ἐκύησε, συντυχίῃ ταύτῃ χρησαμένη. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 41 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. not bearing interest

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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