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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

  • ἀώρῳ γὰρ πένθει τρυχόμενοσ πατήρ, τοῦ ταχέωσ ἀφαιρεθέντοσ τέκνου εἰκόνα ποιήσασ, τὸν τότε νεκρὸν ἄνθρωπον νῦν ὡσ Θεὸν ἐτίμησε καὶ παρέδωκε τοῖσ ὑποχειρίοισ μυστήρια καὶ τελετάσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:15)
  • οἱᾶ περὶ τούτου φησὶ τῶν κωμικῶν τισ πρὸσ τὸν ἐπὶ τῷ ἀώρῳ λυπούμενον θανάτῳ εἶτ’ εἰ μὲν ᾕδεισ ὅττι τοῦτον τὸν βίον, ὃν οὐκ ἐβίωσε, ζῶν διευτύχησεν ἄν, ὁ θάνατοσ οὐκ εὔκαιροσ· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 16 1:2)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἡ τῆσ φύσιοσ εἰσ ἄνδρα μεταβολὴ ἀγαθόν τι πρήσσει, μετεβιάσαν το τὴν παίδων φύσιν ἀώρῳ ξυνουσίῃ , ὡσ θᾶσσον ἀναρρώσ οντ εσ· ἀγνοέου σι δὲ τῆσ φύσιοσ τὴν αὐτομάτην προθεσμίην, ἐφ’ ᾗ πάντα γίγνεται τὰ ἄκεα· ἥδε γὰρ ἑκάστῃ ἡλικίῃ συντίκτει τὰ οἰκεῖα ἐν χρόνοισ ὡραίοισι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 154)
  • οὐ μὴν ὅτι γε ὡραῖοσ ἀώρῳ, οὐδὲ ὅτι γε καλὸσ οὐκέτι καλῷ καὶ ἐρῶντι οὐκ ἐρῶν ὁμιλεῖ, φιλήσει αὐτόν. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 22:2)

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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