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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

  • τῆσ δὲ γῆσ τῆσ Σκυθικῆσ αἰνῶσ ἀξύλου ἐούσησ ὧδε σφι ἐσ τὴν ἕψησιν τῶν κρεῶν ἐξεύρηται· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 61 1:1)
  • ἀξύλου γὰρ ὑπαρχούσησ σχεδόν τι τῆσ συμπάσησ Καππαδοκίασ ὁ Ἀργαῖοσ ἔχει περικείμενον δρυμὸν ὥστε ἐγγύθεν ὁ ξυλισμὸσ πάρεστιν, ἀλλ’ οἱ ὑποκείμενοι τῷ δρυμῷ τόποι καὶ αὐτοὶ πολλαχοῦ πυρὰ ἔχουσιν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ ὕφυδροί εἰσι ψυχρῷ ὕδατι, οὔτε τοῦ πυρὸσ οὔτε τοῦ ὕδατοσ εἰσ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν ἐκκύπτοντοσ, ὥστε καὶ ποάζειν τὴν πλείστην· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 2 12:17)

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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