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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

  • φωρᾶν δὲ ἂν ἐθέλῃ τισ παρ’ ὁτῳοῦν, γυμνὸσ ἢ χιτωνίσκον ἔχων ἄζωστοσ, προομόσασ τοὺσ νομίμουσ θεοὺσ ἦ μὴν ἐλπίζειν εὑρήσειν, οὕτω φωρᾶν· (Plato, Laws, book 12 88:1)
  • ὁ μὲν δὴ Λέπιδοσ, ὡσ εἶχεν, ἐκ τῆσ εὐνῆσ ἄζωστοσ ἐσ αὐτοὺσ ἐξέθορε καὶ ὑπισχνεῖτο ποιήσειν καὶ τὸν Ἀντώνιον ἠσπάζετο καὶ ἐξελογεῖτο τῆσ ἀνάγκησ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 12 2:5)

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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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