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ἔκτοπος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκτοπος ἔκτοπον

Structure: ἐκτοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. away from a place, away from
  2. distant
  3. foreign, strange, strange
  4. out of the way, strange, extraordinary

Examples

  • πᾶσ που νέοσ, μὴ ὅτι πρεσβύτησ, ἰδὼν ἂν ἢ καὶ ἀκούσασ ὁτιοῦν τῶν ἐκτόπων καὶ μηδαμῇ πωσ συνήθων, οὐκ ἄν ποτέ που τὸ ἀπορηθὲν περὶ αὐτῶν συγχωρήσειεν ἐπιδραμὼν οὕτωσ εὐθύσ, στὰσ δ’ ἄν, καθάπερ ἐν τριόδῳ γενόμενοσ καὶ μὴ σφόδρα κατειδὼσ ὁδόν, εἴτε μόνοσ εἴτε μετ’ ἄλλων τύχοι πορευόμενοσ, ἀνέροιτ’ ἂν αὑτὸν καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ τὸ ἀπορούμενον, καὶ οὐκ ἂν πρότερον ὁρμήσειεν, πρίν πῃ βεβαιώσαιτο τὴν σκέψιν τῆσ πορείασ ὅπῃ ποτὲ φέρει. (Plato, Laws, book 7 71:3)

Synonyms

  1. away from a place

  2. distant

  3. foreign

  4. out of the way

Related

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

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