Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄξυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄξυλος ἄξυλη ἄξυλον

Structure: ἀξυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cu/lon

Sense

  1. with no timber, timberless, a coppice, brushwood, a wood from which no timber has been cut, thick
  2. without wood

Examples

  • τῇ δ’ ἐκ καλάμησ συνέριθοι νῆσαν πυρκαϊὴν ἄξυλον ἀσταχύων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 893)
  • Ἄξυλον δ’ ἄρ’ ἔπεφνε βοὴν ἀγαθὸσ Διομήδησ Τευθρανίδην, ὃσ ἔναιεν ἐϋκτιμένῃ ἐν Ἀρίσβῃ ἀφνειὸσ βιότοιο, φίλοσ δ’ ἦν ἀνθρώποισι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 6 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. without wood

Related

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

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