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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

  • ὦ τῆσ ἀώρου θύγατερ ἀθλίασ τύχησ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 5:22)
  • ὦ μέλεοσ ἥβησ σῆσ, Ὀρέστα, καὶ πότμου θανάτου τ’ ἀώρου. (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:12)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ αἰσχύνῃ τινὶ καὶ φειδοῖ τοῦ λέγοντοσ ὀκνοῦντεσ ἀνερέσθαι καὶ βεβαιώσασθαι τὸν λόγον , ὡσ ἔχοντεσ ἐν νῷ συνεπινεύουσιν, οἱ δ’ ὑπὸ φιλοτιμίασ ἀώρου καὶ κενῆσ πρὸσ ἑτέρουσ ἁμίλλησ ὀξύτητα καὶ δύναμιν εὐμαθείασ ἐπιδεικνύμενοι , πρὶν ἢ λαβεῖν ἔχειν ὁμολογοῦντεσ, οὐ λαμβάνουσιν. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 17 5:3)
  • οὕτωσ εἴ τισ ἔπεισε Μάριον θύειν ταῖσ Ἑλληνικαῖσ Μούσαισ καὶ Χάρισιν, οὐκ ἂν ἐκπρεπεστάταισ στρατηγίαισ καὶ πολιτείαισ ἀμορφοτάτην ἐπέθηκε κορωνίδα, ὑπὸ θυμοῦ καὶ φιλαρχίασ ἀώρου καὶ πλεονεξιῶν ἀπαρηγορήτων εἰσ ὠμότατον καὶ ἀγριώτατον γῆρασ ἐξοκείλασ. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 2 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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