Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄτονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄτονος ἄτονη ἄτονον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + τον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tei/nw

Sense

  1. not stretched, relaxed

Examples

  • "ἤδη γὰρ ἀκήκοα λεγόντων τινῶν περὶ τοῦ πυρόσ, ὡσ ἐν χειμῶνι κάεται βέλτιον ὑπὸ ῥώμησ εἰσ αὑτὸ συστελλόμενον τῇ ψυχρότητι καὶ πυκνούμενον, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ αὐχμοῖσ ἐξασθενεῖ καὶ γίγνεται μανὸν καὶ ἄτονον, κἂν ἐν ἡλίῳ κάηται, χεῖρον ἐργάζεται, καὶ τῆσ ὕλησ ἅπτεται μαλακῶσ καὶ καταναλίσκει βράδιον. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 4 3:3)
  • γίγνεται γὰρ ἄτονον καὶ ἀδρανὲσ καὶ ὅλωσ ἐοίκε σῆψισ ἡ ζύμωσισ εἶναι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 109 1:3)
  • γίγνεται γὰρ ἄτονον καὶ ἀδρανὲσ καὶ ὅλωσ ἐοίκε σῆψισ ἡ ζύμωσισ εἶναι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 109 2:3)
  • τοῖσ ὕπνοισ ἐξανεῖται, καὶ μανὸν καὶ ἀνώμαλον καὶ ἄτονον καὶ διακεχυμένον, καὶ πόρουσ ἔσχηκε πολλούσ, τοῦ πνεύματοσ ἐνδιδόντοσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 26:1)
  • ὧν τὸ ἄτολμον ὁρῶντεσ, καὶ τὸ σῶμα μαλακὸν καὶ ἄτονον, προσίεσθε τῷ ἔργῳ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:37)

Synonyms

  1. not stretched

Related

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

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