ἀεικής
COMPOUND: ἀεικής, –ές
CATEGORIZATION: A [α+V+Suf]
MEANING: ‘unseemly, shameful’
ETYMOLOGY: ἀ- privativum + verbal root εικ- (ἔοικα) ‘to be like, look like, seem’ + adj. suf. -ής, -ές
OCCURRENCE: Il. I, 97, 341, 398, 456; II, 264; IX, 70, 495; XI, 142; XII, 435; XIV, 13; XV, 496; XXI, 20; XXII, 395; XXIII, 24; XXIV, 594, 733; Od. II, 250; III, 265; XI, 429; XIII, 437; XV, 236; XVI, 107, 199; XVII, 130, 131, 197, 216; XVIII, 108; XX, 317, 366, 394; XXII, 308, 317, 416, 432; XXIII, 222; XXIV, 184, 250
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: nom. m. sg., nom. n. sg., acc. m. sg., acc. f. (target gender) sg., acc. n. sg., dat. f. (target gender) pl., acc. n. pl.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: ἀ- privativum is not a free word in Greek; s. ἀεικέλιος