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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

  • εὐλογία Κυρίου ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν δικαίου, στόμα δὲ ἀσεβῶν καλύψει πένθοσ ἄωρον. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 10:7)
  • λευκὴ μέν, οἱάν εἰκὸσ ἐκ κύκνου γεγενημένην, ἁπαλὴ δέ, ὡσ ἐν ᾠῷ τραφεῖσα, γυμνὰσ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ παλαιστική, καὶ οὕτω δή τι περισπούδαστοσ ὥστε καὶ πόλεμον ἀμφ’ αὐτῇ γενέσθαι, τοῦ Θησέωσ ἀώρον ἔτι ἁρπάσαντοσ. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 14:3)
  • χαριεντισμὸσ γὰρ πᾶσ ἐν σπουδῇ καὶ κακοῖσ γινόμενοσ ἀώρον πρᾶγμα καὶ πολεμιώτατον ἐλέῳ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 12 2:3)
  • ἱκετηρίαν δὲ γόνασιν ἐξάπτω σέθεν τὸ σῶμα τοὐμόν, ὅπερ ἔτικτεν ἥδε σοι, μή μ’ ἀπολέσῃσ ἀώρον· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 3:4)
  • ἡρ́πασε γὰρ Ἀριάδνην καὶ Ἀντιόπην καὶ Ἀναξὼ τὴν Τροιζηνίαν, ἐπὶ πάσαισ δὲ τὴν Ἑλένην, παρηκμακὼσ οὐκ ἀκμάζουσαν, ἀλλὰ νηπίαν καὶ ἀώρον αὐτὸσ ὡρ́αν ἔχων ἤδη γάμων πεπαῦσθαι καὶ νομίμων ἔπειτα διὰ τὴν αἰτίαν οὐ γὰρ ἀξιώτεραί γε παιδοποιοὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησιν Ἐρεχθηίδων καὶ Κεκροπίδων αἱ Τροιζηνίων καὶ Λακώνων καὶ Ἀμαζόνων ἀνέγγυοι θυγατέρεσ ἦσαν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 6 1:3)

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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