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ἀπόκρημνος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόκρημνος ἀπόκρημνη ἀπόκρημνον

Structure: ἀποκρημν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. broken sheer off, precipitous, full of difficulties

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • οὗτοσ γὰρ εἰώθει τοὺσ παριόντασ ἀναγκάζειν ἀπονίπτειν ἑαυτὸν ἐπί τινοσ ἀποκρήμνου τόπου, λακτίσματι δ’ ἄφνω τύπτων περιεκύλιε κατὰ τῶν κρημνῶν εἰσ θάλατταν κατὰ τὴν ὀνομαζομένην Χελώνην. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 59 4:3)
  • ἔμπροσθε ὦν πρὸ τῆσ ἀκροπόλιοσ, ὄπισθε δὲ τῶν πυλέων καὶ τῆσ ἀνόδου, τῇ δὴ οὔτε τισ ἐφύλασσε οὔτ’ ἂν ἤλπισε μή κοτέ τισ κατὰ ταῦτα ἀναβαίη ἀνθρώπων, ταύτῃ ἀνέβησαν τινὲσ κατὰ τὸ ἱρὸν τῆσ Κέκροποσ θυγατρὸσ Ἀγλαύρου, καίτοι περ ἀποκρήμνου ἐόντοσ τοῦ χώρου. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 53 2:3)
  • κεῖται γὰρ ἐπὶ χωρίου τἆλλα ὁμαλοῦ καὶ ἐπιπέδου, κύκλῳ δὲ πέτρᾳ φρουρουμένου τὰ μὲν ἐκτὸσ ἀποκρήμνου καὶ ἀποτόμου τὰ δ’ ἐντὸσ πηγὰσ ἀφθόνουσ ἔχοντοσ εἴσ τε ὑδρείαν καὶ κηπείαν. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 41:4)

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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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