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ἀχρεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀχρεῖος ἀχρεῖη ἀχρεῖον

Structure: ἀχρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. useless, unprofitable, good for nothing
  2. unserviceable, unfit for war, the unserviceable part
  3. helpless, foolish, without cause or meaning, forced, without cause

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἀχρεῖος ἀχρεί͂ᾱ ἀχρεῖον
Genitive ἀχρείου ἀχρεί͂ᾱς ἀχρείου
Dative ἀχρείῳ ἀχρεί͂ᾱͅ ἀχρείῳ
Accusative ἀχρεῖον ἀχρεί͂ᾱν ἀχρεῖον
Vocative ἀχρεῖε ἀχρεί͂ᾱ ἀχρεῖον
DualN/A/V ἀχρείω ἀχρεί͂ᾱ ἀχρείω
G/D ἀχρείοιν ἀχρεί͂αιν ἀχρείοιν
PluralNominative ἀχρεῖοι ἀχρεῖ͂αι ἀχρεῖα
Genitive ἀχρείων ἀχρεῖῶν ἀχρείων
Dative ἀχρείοις ἀχρεί͂αις ἀχρείοις
Accusative ἀχρείους ἀχρεί͂ᾱς ἀχρεῖα
Vocative ἀχρεῖοι ἀχρεῖ͂αι ἀχρεῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀχρεῖος ἀχρείου ἀχρειώτερος ἀχρειωτέρου ἀχρειώτατος ἀχρειωτάτου
Adverb ἀχρείως ἀχρειώτερον ἀχρειώτατα

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

  • Γολόσσησ δ’ αὐτοῖσ ἐπιτρέχων σὺν Νομάσι πολλοῖσ καὶ ἐλέφασι πολὺν εἰργάζετο φόνον, ὡσ ἀπολέσθαι μὲν ἐσ ἑπτακισμυρίουσ σὺν τοῖσ ἀχρείοισ, ἁλῶναι δ’ ἐσ μυρίουσ, διαφυγεῖν δ’ ἀμφὶ τοὺσ τετρακισχιλίουσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 18 10:8)
  • εἰκάσαισ ἂν ἄχθεσθαι τοῖσ ξίφεσιν αὐτὸν ὡσ ἀχρείοισ καὶ ὄφελόσ σφισιν οὐ γεγενημένοισ ἐσ τὰ τολμήματα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 15:2)

Synonyms

  1. useless

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

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