ἀμήχανον (amechanon)

ἀμήχανον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀμήχανος, meaning “helpless, impossible”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 170 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1053: ἠῶθεν δʼ ὀλοὴν καὶ ἀμήχανον εἰσενόησαν

Plutarch, Aristides 8.5: … τὴν ὑφʼ ἑαυτοῦ κατασκευασθεῖσαν ἀπάτην πρὸς τὸν βάρβαρον, παρεκάλει πείθειν τὸν Εὐρυβιάδην καὶ διδάσκειν, ὡς ἀμήχανόν ἐστι σωθῆναι μὴ ναυμαχήσαντας· εἶχε γὰρ αὐτοῦ μᾶλλον πίστιν.

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 1.208: Ἀμήχανον δʼ ἐν εὐπραγίαις φθόνον διαφυγεῖν· Ὑρκανὸς γοῦν ἤδη μὲν καὶ καθʼ ἑαυτὸν ἡσυχῆ πρὸς τὸ κλέος τῶν νεανίσκων ἐδά …

All forms of ἀμήχανος (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.