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ἄζηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄζηλος ἄζηλη ἄζηλον

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

Sense

  1. not subject to envy, unenviable, dreary
  2. sorry, inconsiderable

Examples

  • ὥσ φησι Θεόφραστοσ, καὶ ἄζηλοσ ἀληθῶσ, εἰ Καλλίασ ὁ πλουσιώτατοσ Ἀθηναίων καὶ Ἰσμηνίασ ὁ Θηβαίων εὐπορώτατοσ ἐχρῶντο τούτοισ, οἷσ Σωκράτησ καὶ Ἐπαμεινώνδασ. (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 8 3:1)
  • ταπεινή μοι δοκεῖ καὶ ἄζηλοσ ἡ λέξισ καὶ οὐδὲν ἔχουσα τῆσ περιμαχήτου πόλεωσ ἄξιον, ὡσ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 28 1:4)
  • πάρεστι δῆτα, καὶ μάλ’ ἄζηλοσ θέα. (Sophocles, episode14)

Synonyms

  1. not subject to envy

  2. sorry

Related

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

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