Hellas Alive Dictionary - αχρειος

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ἀχρεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀχρεῖος ἀχρεῖη ἀχρεῖον

Structure: ἀχρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

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

Declension

First/Second declension

		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ἀχρεῖος	ἀχρεί͂ᾱ	ἀχρεῖον
	Genitive	ἀχρείου	ἀχρεί͂ᾱς	ἀχρείου
	Dative	ἀχρείῳ	ἀχρεί͂ᾱͅ	ἀχρείῳ
	Accusative	ἀχρεῖον	ἀχρεί͂ᾱν	ἀχρεῖον
	Vocative	ἀχρεῖε	ἀχρεί͂ᾱ	ἀχρεῖον
Dual	N/A/V	ἀχρείω	ἀχρεί͂ᾱ	ἀχρείω
Dual	G/D	ἀχρείοιν	ἀχρεί͂αιν	ἀχρείοιν
Plural	Nominative	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

καὶ ἀποκαλυφθήσομαι ἔτι οὕτωσ καὶ ἔσομαι ἀχρεῖοσ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ σου καὶ μετὰ τῶν παιδισκῶν, ὧν εἶπάσ με μὴ δοξασθῆναι. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 6:22)
ὅθεν παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἡ ἀχρεῖοσ ἐκείνη καὶ περιττὴ σοφία καί, ὡσ αὐτοὶ ᾤοντο, ἀπρόσμαχοσ ἀνεφλέγετο, αἱ κομψαὶ καὶ ἄποροι καὶ ἄτοποι. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 10:3)
ἀχρεῖοσ δ’ ἔσται ἐπέων νομόσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 46:11)
λαβὼν οὖν Οὐάροσ τὰ παρὰ Φιλίππου γράμματα καὶ πυθόμενοσ αὐτὸν διασεσῶσθαι βαρέωσ ἤνεγκεν, ἀχρεῖοσ τὸ λοιπὸν αὐτὸσ νομίζων φανεῖσθαι τοῖσ βασιλεῦσιν ἀφικομένου τοῦ Φιλίππου. (Flavius Josephus, 61:1)
Σοφοκλῆσ δ’ ἐν Ἑλένησ Γάμῳ τροπικῶσ τῷ τοῦ δένδρου ὀνόματι τὸν καρπὸν ἐκάλεσεν εἰπών πέπων ἐρινὸσ ἀχρεῖοσ ὢν ἐσ βρῶσιν ἄλλουσ ἐξερινάζεισ λόγῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 652)
καὶ ὁ Ῥόδιοσ δὲ ἐλάττονοσ μὲν κεκοινώνηκε θαλάσσησ, ὁ δὲ πολὺσ αὐτοῦ ἀχρεῖόσ ἐστιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 59 2:1)

Synonyms

useless
- ἀνωφελής (unprofitable, useless)
- ἀνωφέλητος (unprofitable, useless)
- ἄχρηστος (useless, do-nothing)
- ἀνόνητος (unprofitable, useless, in vain)
- ἐτώσιος (fruitless, useless, unprofitable)

ἀπρονόητος (unpremeditated)
ἀδάμαστος (inflexible)
ἀπονενοημένως (desperately)
δύσεργος (unfit for work)
φιλοκέρδεια (love of gain)
ἑξήρης (with six banks of oars)
ἀνάλωτος (not to be taken)
εὐτολμία (courage)
σκιατραφία (a being brought up in the shade)
ἀσυνήθεια (want of experience)
ἀγύμναστος (unexercised)
δύσχρηστος (hard to use)
καρτερικός (capable of endurance)
ἀπερίσκεπτος (inconsiderate)
σανδάλιον (sandal)
πενθικός (of or for mourning)
ἀνάσκητος (unpractised)
καθεκτός (to be held back or checked)
ἐκπορίζω (to invent)
εὔχαρις (pleasing)
ὀλιγάνθρωπος (scant of men)
ποδώκεια (swiftness of foot)
δυσθέατος (ill to look on)
ὑπερόπτης (a contemner)
οἰκετικός (of or for the menials or household)
ταχυτής (quickness)
ἀκατάστατος (unstable)
δυσμεταχείριστος (hard to manage)
παραθέω (to run beside or alongside)
περισταδόν (standing round about)

Similar forms

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

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ἀχρεῖος

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useless

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Sense

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useless

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