Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄτριπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄτριπτος ἄτριπτη ἄτριπτον

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

Etym.: tri/bw

Sense

  1. not worn by work, not threshed, on which one cannot tread, untraversed

Examples

  • στρέφοντεσ γὰρ καὶ ὑπὸ τοὺσ πόδασ ὑποβάλλοντεσ τὰ ἄτριπτα ἀεὶ δῆλον ὅτι μάλιστα ὁμαλίζοιεν ἂν τὸν δῖνον καὶ τάχιστα ἁνύτοιεν. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 18 6:6)

Related

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

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