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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative οὐδέτερος οὐδετέρᾱ οὐδέτερον
Genitive οὐδετέρου οὐδετέρᾱς οὐδετέρου
Dative οὐδετέρῳ οὐδετέρᾱͅ οὐδετέρῳ
Accusative οὐδέτερον οὐδετέρᾱν οὐδέτερον
Vocative οὐδέτερε οὐδετέρᾱ οὐδέτερον
DualN/A/V οὐδετέρω οὐδετέρᾱ οὐδετέρω
G/D οὐδετέροιν οὐδετέραιν οὐδετέροιν
PluralNominative οὐδέτεροι οὐδέτεραι οὐδέτερα
Genitive οὐδετέρων οὐδετερῶν οὐδετέρων
Dative οὐδετέροις οὐδετέραις οὐδετέροις
Accusative οὐδετέρους οὐδετέρᾱς οὐδέτερα
Vocative οὐδέτεροι οὐδέτεραι οὐδέτερα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective οὐδέτερος οὐδετέρου οὐδετερότερος οὐδετεροτέρου οὐδετερότατος οὐδετεροτάτου
Adverb οὐδετέρως οὐδετερότερον οὐδετερότατα

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

  • καὶ μὰ τὸν Δί’ οὐδέτεροσ αὐτῶν ἀμείνων ἦν. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 4:5)
  • τῶν δὲ Γράγχων οὐδέτεροσ μὲν ἤρξατο σφαγῆσ ἐμφυλίου, Γάιοσ δὲ λέγεται μηδὲ βαλλόμενοσ ὁρμῆσαι πρὸσ ἄμυναν, ἀλλὰ λαμπρότατοσ ὢν ἐν τοῖσ πολεμικοῖσ ἀργότατοσ ἐν τῇ στάσει γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi, chapter 4 2:1)
  • ἀμφοτέρων τοίνυν τῇ φύσει πολιτικῶν γεγονότων, οὐδέτεροσ διεφύλαξε τὸν βασιλικὸν τρόπον ἐξέστη δὲ καὶ μετέβαλε μεταβολὴν ὁ μὲν δημοτικήν, ὁ δὲ τυραννικήν, ταὐτὸν ἀπ’ ἐναντίων παθῶν ἁμαρτόντεσ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 2 1:1)
  • εἰ γὰρ δυεῖν λεγόντων, τοῦ μὲν αὐστηρὸν εἶναι τὸν οἶνον τοῦ δὲ γλυκύν, οὐδέτεροσ ψεύδεται τῇ αἰσθήσει, τί μᾶλλον ὁ οἶνοσ αὐστηρὸσ ἢ γλυκὺσ ἐστι; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 45)
  • οὐδέτεροσ ἡμῶν ἥδεται τοῖσ Ἀττικοῖσ δείπνοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 83)

Synonyms

  1. not either

Related

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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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