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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

  • ταύτασ δέ, ἅστινασ καὶ ἡμεῖσ ὁρέομεν καὶ τίγριασ καλέομεν, θῶασ εἶναι αἰόλουσ καὶ μέζονασ ἤπερ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ θῶασ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 15 4:1)
  • καὶ ὄφιασ δὲ λέγει Νέαρχοσ θηρευθῆναι αἰόλουσ μὲν καὶ ταχέασ, μέγαθοσ δέ, ὃν μὲν λέγει ἑλεῖν Πείθωνα τὸν Ἀντιγένεοσ, πήχεων ὡσ ἑκκαίδεκα· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 15 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. quick-moving

  2. changeful

  3. shifty

  4. rapid

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

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