ἄδμητος

See also: Ἄδμητος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀδμής (admḗs) +‎ -τος (-tos). Related to δᾰμᾰ́ζω (dămắzō).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ád.mɛː.tos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈad.me̝.tos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈað.mi.tos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈað.mi.tos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈað.mi.tos/

Adjective

ἄδμητος • (ádmētos) m (feminine ἄδμητη, neuter ἄδμητον); first/second declension

(Homeric, only of women and cattle) unbroken
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.292-293:
  σοὶ δʼ αὖ ἐγὼ ῥέξω βοῦν ἦνιν εὐρυμέτωπον
  ἀδμήτην
  soì d aû egṑ rhéxō boûn ênin eurumétōpon
  admḗtēn
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.654-655:
  ἡμίονον ταλαεργὸν ἄγων κατέδησʼ ἐν ἀγῶνι
  ἑξέτεʼ ἀδμήτην, ἥ τʼ ἀλγίστη δαμάσασθαι
  hēmíonon talaergòn ágōn katédēs en agôni
  hexéte admḗtēn, hḗ t algístē damásasthai
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1. (of a woman) unwedded, chaste
  - 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1321-1322:
    ἐπώνυμος τῆς πρόσθεν ἀδμήτης χρόνῳ
    μητρὸς λοχευθείς, πιστὸς Ἀταλάντης γόνος·
    epṓnumos tês prósthen admḗtēs khrónōi
    mētròs lokheutheís, pistòs Atalántēs gónos;
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)
untameable, untamed

Inflection

First and second declension of ἄδμητος; ἀδμήτη; ἄδμητον (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ἄδμητος ádmētos	ἀδμήτη admḗtē	ἄδμητον ádmēton	ἀδμήτω admḗtō	ἀδμήτᾱ admḗtā	ἀδμήτω admḗtō	ἄδμητοι ádmētoi	ἄδμηται ádmētai	ἄδμητᾰ ádmētă
Genitive	ἀδμήτου admḗtou	ἀδμήτης admḗtēs	ἀδμήτου admḗtou	ἀδμήτοιν admḗtoin	ἀδμήταιν admḗtain	ἀδμήτοιν admḗtoin	ἀδμήτων admḗtōn	ἀδμήτων admḗtōn	ἀδμήτων admḗtōn
Dative	ἀδμήτῳ admḗtōi	ἀδμήτῃ admḗtēi	ἀδμήτῳ admḗtōi	ἀδμήτοιν admḗtoin	ἀδμήταιν admḗtain	ἀδμήτοιν admḗtoin	ἀδμήτοις admḗtois	ἀδμήταις admḗtais	ἀδμήτοις admḗtois
Accusative	ἄδμητον ádmēton	ἀδμήτην admḗtēn	ἄδμητον ádmēton	ἀδμήτω admḗtō	ἀδμήτᾱ admḗtā	ἀδμήτω admḗtō	ἀδμήτους admḗtous	ἀδμήτᾱς admḗtās	ἄδμητᾰ ádmētă
Vocative	ἄδμητε ádmēte	ἀδμήτη admḗtē	ἄδμητον ádmēton	ἀδμήτω admḗtō	ἀδμήτᾱ admḗtā	ἀδμήτω admḗtō	ἄδμητοι ádmētoi	ἄδμηται ádmētai	ἄδμητᾰ ádmētă
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ἀδμήτως admḗtōs			ἀδμητότερος admētóteros			ἀδμητότᾰτος admētótătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ἄδμητος (Ádmētos)

References

“ἄδμητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἄδμητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἄδμητος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἄδμητος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἄδμητος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἄδμητος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 301
ἄδμητος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011