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Ἂ ἄ
ah! ah!
In Aristophanes an adverb accompanying surprise and command. "Ah! ah! Don't get that torch near me!" 'Ah! ah!' must be read separately, not elided; and they both have smooth breathing.. For if they were …
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Ἀαγές
unbroken, unbreakable
[Meaning something] unshattered, strong.
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Ἀαδεῖν
to disturb
[Meaning] to harass, to be at a loss, to be treated unjustly, to go hungry.
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α
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Ἀάλιον
undisciplined
[Meaning something] disorderly, powerless. But a(/lion [means] in vain.
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Ἄαπτος
irresistable, invulnerable
[Meaning someone/something] unharmed. Herodianus says about a)/aptos that it comes from i)a/ptw ['I harm'], and after adding alpha-privative and dropping the 'i' [it becomes] a)/aptos, "whom no one can harm." Or perhaps the 'a' …
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Ἀασάμην
I was addled
[Meaning] I did wrong, I slipped up; I was damaged, in the sense of "I was overcome by folly."
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Ἀάσαι
to harm, to infatuate
has four meanings: to glut, to go to sleep, to harm, to cause pain.
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Ἀάσχετος
irresistible
[Something/someone] uncontrollable.
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Ἀββᾶ
Abba, Father
The ancients called God "Father" from a feeling of relationship. Moses said, "You have forsaken God who begot you." And Malachi: "One God begot us and is our father." They were in a state …
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Ἀβάκησαν
they kept quiet
[Meaning] they were unaware, they did not understand.
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Ἀββακούμ
Habakkuk, Abbakoum, Avvakoum
[A name meaning] father of awakening. For the [word] abba means father, and koum means awakening. So also in the Holy Gospel: "Talitha, koum," that is, "young girl, get up." From which [it is] …
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Ἀβάλε
would that
[Meaning] o that. "Would that [...]."
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Ἄβαλεν
threw
[a)/balen is found] meaning e)/balen.
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Ἀβάντειος
Abanteios, Abantius, Abantian
The [house] of Abas. Also [attested is] Abantiades.
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Ἄβαξι
[in/on/with] planks, abacuses
What we call a)ba/kia. The Lawmaker [says] in the Martyrdom of Saint Thecla: "Tryphaina was overcome by suffering, and was seen lying like the dead on the slabs." So he says.
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Ἄβαπτος
untempered
[Meaning] most/very unsharpened. Also [sc. attested is the superlative] a)bapto/tatos.
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Ἄβαρις
Abaris, Avars
Scythian, son of Seuthes. He wrote the so-called Scythinian Oracles and Marriage of the river Hebros and Purifications and a Theogony in prose and Arrival of Apollo among the Hyperboreans in meter. He came …
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Ἀβαρνίς
Abarnis
Name of a city.
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Ἀβασάνιστος
untested
[Meaning someone/something] unexercised or unexamined, unscrutinized. The word comes from the test of the goldsmith's stone, on which they scrutinize gold. Aelian in his On Providence used the word 'untested' to mean 'without pain'.
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Ἄβατον
inaccessible
[Meaning something] sacred, unapproachable, desolate; also an 'inaccessible' road, [meaning] impassable.
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Ἀβαχθανῆ
abakhthani
A Hebrew expression.
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Ἀβδέλυκτα
unhateful [things]
[Meaning] those which do not cause pollution, at which one would not feel disgust or hatred. The word [is] somewhat tragic. Aeschylus in Myrmidons [writes]: "indeed, for I love them, they are unhateful to …
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Ἄβδηρα
Abdera
The sea, and a name of a city and 'Abderite' [is] the citizen [of it]. Also Phalera and Kythera [sc. are spelled with eta]; but Gadeira, Stageira, Topeira, and Dobeira [sc. are spelled with …
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Ἀβδιού
Abdiou, Obadiah
Proper name.
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Ἀβέβηλα
inviolable [places]
[Meaning] places that must not be walked on, holy and sacred places. For be/bhla meant what is not holy or sacred, where anyone may walk. Also [sc. attested is] be/bhloi, [meaning] those who do …
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Ἀβέλτερος
thoughtless
[Meaning] mindless, stupid. For the intelligent man [is] be/lteros ["thoughtful, superior"]. "No, by Zeus, not the greedy and thoughtless fellow, but the mindless and conceitedly slow-witted." Menander in Perinthia [writes]: "any servant who takes …
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Ἀβελτερώτατοι
most thoughtless, very thoughtless
Aristophanes [writes]: "before this most/very thoughtless men used to sit gaping -- Dolts, Half-wits".
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Ἀβέρβηλος
unsteady
[Meaning someone or something] unstable. There is also a word a)bu/rbhlon, [meaning something] shameless, hateful.
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Ἀβιμέλεχ
Abimelech
Proper name. The son of Gideon. He smote his brothers, seventy sons of Gideon's wives, upon a single stone, and none of them was left except Jotham the youngest son, who ran away. As …
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Ἄβιος
full-lived
Antiphon has a)/bion for one who has acquired a good living. Similarly Homer has a)/culon for "full of timber."
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