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ἄωρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄωρος ἄωρον

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

Etym.: w(/ra

Sense

  1. untimely, unseasonable, unbecoming
  2. unripe
  3. without youthful freshness, ugly

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

  • ὡρ́α τοίνυν καὶ βασιλεῖ παραινεῖν πρεσβύτῃ γεγενημένῳ τὸ μὲν διάδημα καταθέσθαι καὶ τὴν πορφύραν, ἱμάτιον δ’ ἀναλαβόντα καὶ καμπύλην ἐν ἀγρῷ διατρίβειν, μὴ δοκῇ περίεργα καὶ ἀώρα πράττειν ἐν πολιαῖσ βασιλεύων. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 11 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. unripe

  2. without youthful freshness

Related

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

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