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αὐθαίρετος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐθαίρετος αὐθαίρετη αὐθαίρετον

Structure: αὐθαιρετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. self-chosen, self-elected
  2. by free choice, of oneself, independent
  3. taken upon oneself, self-incurred, voluntary

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

  • τῶν δὲ πημονῶν μάλιστα λυποῦσ’ αἳ φανῶσ’ αὐθαίρετοι. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode3)
  • οἱᾶ δὲ ὑμῖν καὶ διαπεπράχασιν οἱ αὐθαίρετοι οὗτοι στρατηγοὶ σκέψασθε. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 7 31:1)

Synonyms

  1. self-chosen

Related

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

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