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ἀδινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδινός

Structure: ἀδιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. close-packed
  2. crowded, thronging, thick-falling
  3. vehement, loud, the loud-voiced, frequently, loudly, vehemently

Examples

  • μήτηρ δ’ ὡσ τὰ πρῶτ’ ἐπεχεύατο πήχεε παιδί, ὧσ ἔχετο κλαίουσ’ ἀδινώτερον, ἠύτε κούρη οἰόθεν ἀσπασίωσ πολιὴν τροφὸν ἀμφιπεσοῦσα μύρεται, ᾗ οὐκ εἰσὶν ἔτ’ ἄλλοι κηδεμονῆεσ, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ μητρυιῇ βίοτον βαρὺν ἡγηλάζει· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 6:8)
  • κλαῖον δὲ λιγέωσ, ἀδινώτερον ἤ τ’ οἰωνοί, φῆναι ἢ αἰγυπιοὶ γαμψώνυχεσ, οἷσί τε τέκνα ἀγρόται ἐξείλοντο πάροσ πετεηνὰ γενέσθαι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 16 26:2)

Synonyms

  1. crowded

Related

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

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