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Αἰτναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Αἰτναῖος

Structure: Αἰτναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to Etna
  2. like Etna, enormous, Etnean, Sicilian

Examples

  • ἐχθὲσ δὲ μετὰ ταῦτ’ ἐκφθαρεὶσ οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅποι εἰσήγαγ’ Αἰτναῖον μέγιστον κάνθαρον, κἄπειτα τοῦτον ἱπποκομεῖν μ’ ἠνάγκασεν, καὐτὸσ καταψῶν αὐτὸν ὥσπερ πωλίον, ὦ Πηγάσειον, φησί, γενναῖον πτερόν, ὅπωσ πετήσει μ’ εὐθὺ τοῦ Διὸσ λαβών. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue 2:16)
  • "ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ πῦρ τὸ Αἰτναῖον ὑπὸ γῆν παρὰ φύσιν ἐστὶν , ἀλλὰ πῦρ ἐστι· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 12 1:3)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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