ἀκάθαρτον (akatharton)

ἀκάθαρτον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀκάθαρτος, meaning “unclean, impure”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 17: … γὰρ ὅτι εἰς πονηρὰν ψυχὴν ἀστεῖον λόγον ἐμβάλλειν οὐ προσῆκεν· ὁ μὲν γὰρ λόγος τροφὴ διανοίας ἐστί, τοῦτον δʼ ἀκάθαρτον ἡ πονηρία ποιεῖ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. μὴ ἐπιστρέφεσθαι ἐπὶ τοὺς ὅρους ἐλθόντας, τουτέστι μέλλοντας ἀποθνήσκειν καὶ τὸ …

Strabo, Geography 16.4.5: … ῖσθαι δὲ νήσους τρεῖς, δύο μὲν ἐλαίαις κατασκίους, μίαν δʼ ἧττον κατάσκιον, μελεαγρίδων μεστήν· εἶθʼ ἑξῆς τὸν Ἀκάθαρτον κόλπον καὶ αὐτὸν κατὰ τὴν Θηβαΐδα κείμενον, καθάπερ τὸν Μυὸς ὅρμον, ὄντως δὲ ἀκάθαρτον· καὶ γὰρ ὑφάλοις χοιρά …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 1.24: … Μανωὲ ἠρώτα τὸν ἄγγελον τί ἂν τοῦ παιδὸς γεννηθέντος ποιήσειαν. ὁ δέ “οἶνον” ἔφη “οὐ πίεται οὐδὲ μέθυσμα, καὶ ἀκάθαρτόν τι οὐ φάγεται καὶ τὴν κόμην οὐ ξυρηθήσεται. καὶ ὁ Μανωὲ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ ὁμιλοῦντος αὐτῷ ἐζήτει μαθεῖν, ὁ δὲ θαυμ …

All forms of ἀκάθαρτος (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.