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Ζῆν οὐκ ἄξιος, ὅτῳ μηδὲ εἷς ἐστι χρηστὸς φίλοςLife is not worth living if you do not have at least one friend.

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|strgr=from [[εὐνοῦχος]]; to [[castrate]] ([[figuratively]], [[live]] [[unmarried]]): [[make]]…[[eunuch]].
|strgr=from [[εὐνοῦχος]]; to [[castrate]] ([[figuratively]], [[live]] [[unmarried]]): [[make]]…[[eunuch]].
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|txtha=1st aorist ἐυνουχισα; 1st aorist [[passive]] ἐυνουχίσθην; (on the [[augment]] cf. Buttmann, 34 (30); WH s Appendix, p. 162); to [[castrate]], [[unman]]: [[passive]] [[ὑπό]] τίνος, ἐυνουχίζειν ἑαυτόν, to [[make]] [[oneself]] a [[eunuch]], viz. by abstaining ([[like]] a [[eunuch]]) from [[marriage]], Josephus, Antiquities 10,2, 2; Lucian, [[Dio]] Cassius, others.)
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Transliteration A: eunouchízō Transliteration B: eunouchizō Transliteration C: evnouchizo Beta Code: eu)nouxi/zw

English (LSJ)

   A castrate, τινα Ev.Matt.19.12 (Act. and Pass.), Luc.Sat. 12, etc.; γυναῖκας Xanth.19: metaph., γῆν Philostr.V A6.42; φάρμακον Archig. ap.Orib.8.2.8:—Pass., Gal.4.570, D.C.68.2.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1084] zum Verschnittenen machen, entmannen, Luc. Cronos. 12. – Pass., D. Csss. 68, 2; auch γυναῖκας, Ath. XII, 515 c.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

εὐνουχίζω: ὡς καὶ νῡν, ἀποτέμνω τὰ γεννητικὰ μόριά τινος, καθιστῶ αὐτὸν εὐνοῦχον, τοὺς δὲ πλουσίους μὴ εὐνουχίζων Λουκ. Κρονοσόλων 12˙ εὐν. ἑαυτὸν τῆς ἐπιθυμίας Κλήμ. Ἀλ. 538: - Παθ., Δίων Κ. 68. 2: - ῥηματ. ἐπίθ., εὐνουχιστέον τοὺς μόσχους Γεωπ. 17. 8, 2.

French (Bailly abrégé)

rendre eunuque, châtrer, mutiler.
Étymologie: εὐνοῦχος.

English (Strong)

from εὐνοῦχος; to castrate (figuratively, live unmarried): makeeunuch.

English (Thayer)

1st aorist ἐυνουχισα; 1st aorist passive ἐυνουχίσθην; (on the augment cf. Buttmann, 34 (30); WH s Appendix, p. 162); to castrate, unman: passive ὑπό τίνος, ἐυνουχίζειν ἑαυτόν, to make oneself a eunuch, viz. by abstaining (like a eunuch) from marriage, Josephus, Antiquities 10,2, 2; Lucian, Dio Cassius, others.)