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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

  • τὸν δὲ θάνατον οὐδετέρου μὲν ἔστιν ἐπαινέσαι, ψεκτὸσ δὲ ὁ Δημητρίου μᾶλλον. (Plutarch, Comparison of Demetrius and Antony, chapter 6 2:1)
  • τὴν τοίνυν τελευτὴν ἐπαινῶ μὲν οὐδετέρου τῶν ἀνδρῶν, ἀλλ’ ἀνιῶμαι καὶ ἀγανακτῶ τῷ παραλόγῳ τοῦ συμπτώματοσ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus, chapter 3 1:1)
  • καίτοι τὴν Αὄρνον ἐκείνην, οὐδετέρου ἐκείνων λαβόντοσ, ἐγὼ μόνοσ ἐχειρωσάμην. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 10:2)
  • κοινὸν δέ πωσ αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ ἀτελὲσ γέγονε τῆσ στρατηγίασ, ἑκατέρου μὲν συντρίψαντοσ, οὐδετέρου δὲ καταλύσαντοσ τὸν ἀνταγωνιστήν. (Plutarch, , chapter 3 3:1)
  • ὧν οὐδετέρου πρόνοιαν αὐτὸν πεποιῆσθαι τὴν προσήκουσαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 102)

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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