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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

  • λύχνα δὲ οὐδετέρωσ εἴρηκεν Ἡρόδοτοσ ἐν δευτέρᾳ Ἱστοριῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce 1:5)
  • ὅτι καὶ οὐδετέρωσ ἀμύγδαλα λέγεται, Δίφιλοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 39 3:3)
  • Τρύφων δὲ ἐν Ἀττικῇ προσῳδίᾳ ἀμυγδάλην μὲν τὸν καρπὸν βαρέωσ, ὃν ἡμεῖσ οὐδετέρωσ ἀμύγδαλον λέγομεν, ἀμυγδαλᾶσ δὲ τὰ δένδρα, κτητικοῦ παρὰ τὸν καρπὸν ὄντοσ τοῦ χαρακτῆροσ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο περισπωμένου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 40 1:10)
  • οὐδετέρωσ δ’ Ἐπίχαρμοσ καὶ Ἀμειψίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 77 2:8)
  • Ἀττικοὶ δὲ καὶ οὐδετέρωσ λέγουσι, καὶ γίνεται ἡ γενικὴ τοῦ ταρίχουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 89 3:4)

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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