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ἄωρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄωρος ἄωρᾱ ἄωρον

Structure: ἀωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)ei/rw, cf. mete/wros

Sense

  1. pendulous, waving about

Examples

  • α# Παλλὰσ Τριτογένει’, ἄνασσ1’ Ἀθηνᾶ,2 ὄρθου τήνδε πόλιν τε καὶ πολίτασ, ἄτερ ἀλγέων καὶ στάσεων καὶ θανάτων ἀώρων σύ τε καὶ πατήρ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 503)

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

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