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ἀραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀραῖος

Structure: ἀραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)ra/

Sense

  1. prayed to or entreated
  2. prayed against, accursed, laden with a curse or curses, under a curse
  3. cursing, bringing mischief upon

Examples

  • πόρων ἢ συνεκπίπτει διὰ τῶν ἀραιῶν, οὕτωσ ἡ κολακεία τῆσ φιλίασ εἰσ πᾶν πάθοσ καὶ πᾶν κίνημα καὶ χρείαν καὶ συνήθειαν ἑαυτὴν καταμιγνύουσα δυσχώριστόσ ἐστιν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 4 7:1)
  • τοσῶνδε κρατῆρ’ ἐν δόμοισ κακῶν ὅδε πλήσασ ἀραίων αὐτὸσ ἐκπίνει μολών. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 7:3)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν πυκνὰ τῶν σωμάτων, σίδηροσ, χαλκόσ, ἄργυροσ, χρυσόσ, ἀποστέγει καὶ φθείρεται καὶ τήκεται, πάσχοντα τῷ προσμάχεσθαι καὶ ἀντερείδειν τῶν δ’ ἀραιῶν καὶ πολυπόρων καὶ χαλώντων ὑπὸ μανότητοσ ἀψαυστὶ διεκθεῖ, καθάπερ ἱματίων καὶ ξύλων αὐών· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 22:1)

Synonyms

  1. prayed to or entreated

  2. prayed against

Derived

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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