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παραδόξως (paradoxos)

παραδόξως is an Ancient Greek form of παράδοξος, meaning “unexpected, incredible”. It is the adverb.

Found 83 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Strabo, Geography 6.3.5: ἡ δʼ ἑξῆς τῶν Ἰαπύγων χώρα παραδόξως ἐστὶν ἀστεία· ἐπιπολῆς γὰρ φαινομένη τραχεῖα εὑρίσκεται βαθύγειος σχιζομένη, ἀνυδροτέρα δʼ οὖσα εὔβοτος οὐδὲν …

All forms of παράδοξος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.