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ἔγκαρπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκαρπος ἔγκαρπον

Structure: ἐγκαρπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. containing fruit

Examples

  • καὶ ἥξουσι καὶ εὐφρανθήσονται ἐν τῷ ὄρει Σιών. καὶ ἥξουσιν ἐπ’ ἀγαθὰ Κυρίου, ἐπὶ γῆν σίτου καὶ οἴνου καὶ καρπῶν καὶ κτηνῶν καὶ προβάτων, καὶ ἔσται ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτῶν ὥσπερ ξύλον ἔγκαρπον. καὶ οὐ πεινάσουσιν ἔτι. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 38:12)
  • Σωρκανὸν ἐγκολπίσασθαι καὶ φιλίαν τιμᾶν καὶ μετιέναι καὶ προσδέχεσθαι καὶ γεωργεῖν, πολλοῖσ μὲν ἰδίᾳ πολλοῖσ δὲ καὶ δημοσίᾳ χρήσιμον καὶ ἔγκαρπον γενησομένην, φιλοκάλων ἐστὶ καὶ πολιτικῶν καὶ φιλανθρώπων οὐχ ὡσ ἔνιοι νομίζουσι φιλοδόξων· (Plutarch, Maxime cum principbus philosopho esse diserendum, chapter, section 11)
  • οἳ λόγον μὲν ἔγκαρπον οὐδένα πώποτ’ οὔτ’ εἶπον οὔθ’ εὑρ͂ον οὔτ’ ἐποίησαν, οὐ πανηγύρεισ ἐκόσμησαν, οὐ θεοὺσ ἐτίμησαν, οὐ πόλεσι συνεβούλευσαν, οὐ λυπουμένουσ παρεμυθήσαντο, οὐ στασιάζοντασ διήλλαξαν, οὐ προὔτρεψαν νέουσ, οὐκ ἄλλουσ οὐδένασ, οὐ κόσμου τοῖσ λόγοισ προὐνοήσαντο· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 194:6)

Synonyms

  1. containing fruit

Related

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

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