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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, “not”) + πόνος (pónos, “toil, suffering”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.po.nos/ → /ˈa.po.nos/ → /ˈa.po.nos/
Adjective
ἄπονος • (áponos) m or f (neuter ἄπονον); second declension
- without toil or trouble, effortless
- painless; free from pain
- (of persons) workshy, lazy
- relieving pain, soothing
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: άπονος (áponos, “heartless, uncaring”)
Further reading
- “ἄπονος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄπονος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄπονος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄπονος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἄπονος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- easy idem, page 260.
- idle idem, page 413.
- indolent idem, page 434.
- lazy idem, page 481.
- painless idem, page 589.
- peaceful idem, page 601.
- slack idem, page 782.
- slothful idem, page 785.
- supine idem, page 840.
- unearned idem, page 916.
- untroubled idem, page 935.