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ἄζωστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄζωστος ἄζωστη ἄζωστον

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

Etym.: zw/nnumi

Sense

  1. ungirt

Examples

  • ἐπανελθὼν δὲ Λούκουλλοσ ἀτιμίαν τινὰ τοῖσ φεύγουσι νενομισμένην προσέβαλε, κελεύσασ ἐν χιτῶσιν ἀζώστοισ ὀρύξαι δώδεκα ποδῶν τάφρον, ἐφεστώτων καὶ θεωμένων τῶν ἄλλων στρατιωτῶν. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 15 7:1)

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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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