Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Two More Greek Auto-Antonyms
An auto-antonym is a word that can mean the opposite of itself. Liddell-Scott-Jones define ἄβρομος as both "joining in a shout" and "noiseless," αὐίαχος as either "joining in a shout" or "noiseless."
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