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οὐδέτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οὐδέτερος οὐδέτερᾱ οὐδέτερον

Structure: οὐδετερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not either, neither of the two, ne uter, in neither of two ways
  2. neutral

Examples

  • οὐδέ νυ τώ γε οὐδέτεροι τρεέτην· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 16:4)
  • ὥστ’ εὐσεβείᾳ μὲν οὐδέτεροι ἐνόμιζον, εὐπρεπείᾳ δὲ λόγου, οἷσ ξυμβαίη ἐπιφθόνωσ τι διαπράξασθαι, ἄμεινον ἤκουον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 33 1:6)
  • "γίνονται δ’ οἱ μὲν κάραβοι ἐν τοῖσ τραχέσι καὶ πετρώδεσιν, οἱ δ’ ἀστακοὶ ἐν τοῖσ λείοισ, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ πηλώδεσιν οὐδέτεροι, διὸ καὶ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 65 1:2)
  • τῶν δ’ ὀδόντων οἱ μὲν ἄνωθεν οἱ δὲ κάτωθεν ἐκφύονται, καὶ οὐδέτεροι παρὰ φύσιν ἔχουσιν· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 14 5:1)
  • ἔτι χρήσιμοι ἂν εἰε͂ν ἀλλήλοισ καὶ ὠφέλιμοι, οὐχ ἁπλῶσ ἀλλὰ πρὸσ τὴν προαίρεσιν, ἢ <ᾗ> οὐδέτεροι. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 87:2)

Synonyms

  1. not either

Related

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

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