COMPOUND: ἄγνωστος, -ον
CATEGORIZATION: A [α+A]
MEANING: ‘unknown, unknowable’
ETYMOLOGY: ἀ- privativum + γνωστός, (-ή,) -όν (=γνωτός, -ή, -όν) ‘known, perceived’
OCCURRENCE: Od. II, 175; XIII, 191, 397
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: acc. m. sg.
HEADEDNESS: endocentric (right-headed)
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: accent shift in compounding; ἀ- privativum is not a free word in Greek