Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄψαυστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄψαυστος ἄψαυστη ἄψαυστον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ψαυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: yau/w

Sense

  1. untouched, not to be touched, sacred
  2. not touching

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δ’ ὅδ’ ἐνθάδε ἄψαυστοσ ἔγχουσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:14)
  • Ὠρεΐδησ δ’ Ἀμύκοιο βίην ὑπέροπλοσ ὀπάων οὖτα Βιαντιάδαο κατὰ λαπάρην Ταλαοῖο, ἀλλά μιν οὐ κατέπεφνεν, ὅσον δ’ ἐπὶ δέρματι μοῦνον νηδυίων ἄψαυστοσ ὑπὸ ζώνην θόρε χαλκόσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 2:32)
  • αὕτη δὴ ἡ μελιτόεσσα ἐν τῷ πρόσθε αἰεὶ χρόνῳ ἀναισιμουμένη τότε ἦν ἄψαυστοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 41 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. untouched

  2. not touching

Related

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

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