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ἀριστερός

ἀριστερός

See also: αριστερός

Ancient Greek

Adjective

ἀριστερός (aristerós) m (feminine ἀριστερά, neuter ἀριστερόν); first/second declension

  1. (euphemistic) left (opposite of right)
  2. ominous, ill boding
  3. clumsy, awkward (Compare French gauche)

Inflection

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • (left): δεξιός (dexiós), δεξιτερός (dexiterós)

References

  • ἀριστερός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ἀριστερός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ἀριστερός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • «ἀριστερός» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • G710”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • left idem, page 484.
  • BDAG
  • Chantraine, Pierre, "Les noms de la gauche en grec", Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 99.3 (1955) 374-377.