ἄτακτος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, “not, without”) + τάσσω (tássō, “draw up in order of battle, form, array, marshal”) + -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.tak.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.tak.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.tak.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.tak.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.tak.tos/
Adjective
ἄτακτος • (átaktos) m or f (neuter ἄτακτον); second declension
- (military) (of troops) Not in battle-order.
- Not at one's post.
- Undisciplined, disorderly; irregular; casual.
- Irregular, inordinate. (of sensual excess)
- (music) Without rhythm.
- (medicine) Irregular.
- Uncivilized, lawless.
- (mathematics) Indeterminate, not admitting of a definite solution.
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | ἄτακτος átaktos |
ἄτακτον átakton |
ἀτάκτω atáktō |
ἀτάκτω atáktō |
ἄτακτοι átaktoi |
ἄτακτᾰ átaktă | ||||||||
| Genitive | ἀτάκτου atáktou |
ἀτάκτου atáktou |
ἀτάκτοιν atáktoin |
ἀτάκτοιν atáktoin |
ἀτάκτων atáktōn |
ἀτάκτων atáktōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ἀτάκτῳ atáktōi |
ἀτάκτῳ atáktōi |
ἀτάκτοιν atáktoin |
ἀτάκτοιν atáktoin |
ἀτάκτοις atáktois |
ἀτάκτοις atáktois | ||||||||
| Accusative | ἄτακτον átakton |
ἄτακτον átakton |
ἀτάκτω atáktō |
ἀτάκτω atáktō |
ἀτάκτους atáktous |
ἄτακτᾰ átaktă | ||||||||
| Vocative | ἄτακτε átakte |
ἄτακτον átakton |
ἀτάκτω atáktō |
ἀτάκτω atáktō |
ἄτακτοι átaktoi |
ἄτακτᾰ átaktă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἀτάκτως atáktōs |
ἀτακτότερος ataktóteros |
ἀτακτότᾰτος ataktótătos | ||||||||||||
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References
- “ἄτακτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press