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ὀκνηρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀκνηρός ὀκνηρή ὀκνηρόν

Structure: ὀκνηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/knos

Sense

  1. shrinking, hesitating, backward, unready, timid
  2. causing fear, vexatious, troublesome

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ὀκνηρός ὀκνηρᾱ́ ὀκνηρόν
Genitive ὀκνηροῦ ὀκνηρᾶς ὀκνηροῦ
Dative ὀκνηρῷ ὀκνηρᾷ ὀκνηρῷ
Accusative ὀκνηρόν ὀκνηρᾱ́ν ὀκνηρόν
Vocative ὀκνηρέ ὀκνηρᾱ́ ὀκνηρόν
DualN/A/V ὀκνηρώ ὀκνηρᾱ́ ὀκνηρώ
G/D ὀκνηροῖν ὀκνηραῖν ὀκνηροῖν
PluralNominative ὀκνηροί ὀκνηραί ὀκνηρά
Genitive ὀκνηρῶν ὀκνηρῶν ὀκνηρῶν
Dative ὀκνηροῖς ὀκνηραῖς ὀκνηροῖς
Accusative ὀκνηρούς ὀκνηρᾱ́ς ὀκνηρά
Vocative ὀκνηροί ὀκνηραί ὀκνηρά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὀκνηρός ὀκνηροῦ ὀκνηρότερος ὀκνηροτεροῦ ὀκνηρότατος ὀκνηροτατοῦ
Adverb ὀκνηρώς ὀκνηρότερον ὀκνηρότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αἱ δὲ σκυζόμεναι γυμνοῖσ ποσὶν οἴκαδ’ ἰάσι, πολλά με τωθάζοισαι, ὅ τ’ ἀλιθίαν ὁδὸν ἦνθον, ὀκνηραὶ δὲ πάλιν κενεᾶσ ἐν πυθμένι χηλοῦ ψυχροῖσ ἐν γονάτεσσι κάρη μίμνοντι βαλοῖσαι, ἔνθ’ αἰεί σφισιν ἕδρα, ἐπὴν ἄπρηκτοι ἵκωνται. (Theocritus, Idylls, 5)

Synonyms

  1. causing fear

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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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