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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

  • οὐ γὰρ κατὰ καιρὸν τοῦτον ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ἐνεχθῆναι, βιασαμένησ δὲ τῆσ φύσεωσ ἀώρωσ μήτε τῷ θεῷ ἁρμόζειν μήτ’ αὐτῷ τῷ δεσπότῃ χρῆσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 292:2)

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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