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ἀπηνής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπηνής ἀπηνές

Structure: ἀπηνη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Deriv. of -hnhs, as in proshnh/s, uncertain.

Sense

  1. ungentle, harsh, rough, hard

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν κἀκεῖνο πρόσεστιν αὐτῇ, τὸ μὴ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν, ἀλλὰ μετ’ ᾠδῆσ πέτεσθαι οὐκ ἀπηνοῦσ οἱά κωνώπων καὶ ἐμπίδων, οὐδὲ τὸ βαρύβρομον τῶν μελιττῶν ἢ τῶν σφηκῶν τὸ φοβερὸν καὶ ἀπειλητικὸν ἐνδεικνυμένησ, ἀλλὰ τοσοῦτόν ἐστι λιγυρωτέρα, ὅσον σάλπιγγοσ καὶ κυμβάλων αὐλοὶ μελιχρότεροι. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. ungentle

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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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