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ἀφρός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφρός ἀφροῦ

Structure: ἀφρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. foam, of the sea
  2. (of persons and animals) foam, slaver, froth

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀφρός ἀφρώ ἀφροί
Genitive ἀφροῦ ἀφροῖν ἀφρῶν
Dative ἀφρῷ ἀφροῖν ἀφροῖς
Accusative ἀφρόν ἀφρώ ἀφρούς
Vocative ἀφρέ ἀφρώ ἀφροί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τὴν δ’ Ἀφροδίτην ἀφρογενέα τε θεὰν καὶ ἐυστέφανον Κυθέρειαν κικλῄσκουσι θεοί τε καὶ ἀνέρεσ, οὕνεκ’ ἐν ἀφρῷ θρέφθη· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 22:10)
  • ὁρμᾶσθαι χρεὼν πάντ’ ἄνδρ’ ὁπλίτην ἁρμάτων τ’ ἐπεμβάτην, μοναμπύκων τε φάλαρα κινεῖσθαι στόμα ἀφρῷ καταστάζοντα Καδμείαν χθόνα. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 5:35)
  • πίπτει δὲ μανίασ πίτυλον ὁ ξένοσ μεθείσ, στάζων ἀφρῷ γένειον· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 4:6)
  • κάπροι δ’ ὅπωσ θήγοντεσ ἀγρίαν γένυν ξυνῆψαν, ἀφρῷ διάβροχοι γενειάδασ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 1:2)
  • ἐπῄει δὲ κεχηνὸσ καὶ πρὸ πολλοῦ ταράττον τὴν θάλατταν ἀφρῷ τε περικλυζόμενον καὶ τοὺσ ὀδόντασ ἐκφαῖνον πολὺ τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν φαλλῶν ὑψηλοτέρουσ, ὀξεῖσ δὲ πάντασ ὥσπερ σκόλοπασ καὶ λευκοὺσ ὥσπερ ἐλεφαντίνουσ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 30:4)

Synonyms

  1. foam

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