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ἀλεεινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλεεινός

Structure: ἀλεειν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)le/a B

Sense

  1. open to the sun, warm, hot

Examples

  • ὡσ δ’ οὐκ ἔπειθεν, ἀπῆγεν αὐτοὺσ ὀπίσω καὶ κατ’ ἄλλασ ὑπερβολὰσ διελθὼν τὸν Ταῦρον εἰσ τὴν λεγομένην Μυγδονικὴν κατέβαινε, χώραν παμφόρον καὶ ἀλεεινὴν καὶ πόλιν ἐν αὑτῇ μεγάλην καὶ πολυάνθρωπον ἔχουσαν, ἣν οἱ μὲν βάρβαροι Νίσιβιν, οἱ δ’ Ἕλληνεσ Ἀντιόχειαν Μυγδονικὴν προσηγόρευον. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 32 3:1)
  • τούτου δὲ ὁμολογουμένου, οὐκοῦν ἡδὺ μὲν θέρουσ ψυχεινὴν ἔχειν, ἡδὺ δὲ χειμῶνοσ ἀλεεινήν; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 8 12:1)
  • καίτοι φησὶ καὶ πηγάσ τινασ πάνυ καλὰσ ἐν τῷ προαστείῳ, τὴν μὲν ἀλεεινὴν καὶ σφόδρα προσηνοῦσ ὕδατοσ, ὥστε καὶ καπνὸν ἀπ’ αὐτῆσ ἐγείρεσθαι, τὴν δ’ ἐοικυῖαν τῇ ψυχρότητι κρυστάλλῳ τοῦ θέρουσ, ὥστε καὶ θέρουσ καὶ χειμῶνοσ μὴ δυσχερῶσ πλύνειν τὰσ καλὰσ Τρώων θυγατέρασ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 26:3)

Synonyms

  1. open to the sun

Related

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

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