Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

αἰόλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰόλος

Structure: αἰολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. quick-moving, wriggling
  2. changeful of hue, gleaming, glancing, moving with the body, manageable, star-spangled night, flushed by fire-light, discoloured
  3. changeful, shifting, varied
  4. shifty, wily, slippery
  5. rapid, changeable

Examples

  • οἳ δ’, ὥσ τε σφῆκεσ μέσον αἰόλοι ἠὲ μέλισσαι οἰκία ποιήσωνται ὁδῷ ἔπι παιπαλοέσσῃ, οὐδ’ ἀπολείπουσιν κοῖλον δόμον, ἀλλὰ μένοντεσ ἄνδρασ θηρητῆρασ ἀμύνονται περὶ τέκνων, ὣσ οἵ γ’ οὐκ ἐθέλουσι πυλάων καὶ δύ’ ἐόντε χάσσασθαι πρίν γ’ ἠὲ κατακτάμεν ἠὲ ἁλῶναι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 12 10:8)

Synonyms

  1. quick-moving

  2. changeful

  3. shifty

  4. rapid

Related

Similar forms

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

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