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ἀραιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀραιός ἀραιά̄ ἀραιόν

Structure: ἀραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. thin, lean, narrow, slight, slender
  2. not dense, of loose texture, porous
  3. with intervals, intermittent
  4. infrequent, scanty, few and far between
  5. (feminine substantive) flank, belly

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ ἂν ὥσπερ ἐν κοιλίῃ, ἐν ᾗ τὸ ὑγρόν, ἔξω τε περιέχει αὐτὴ ἡ κοιλίη, ἐξαλίζοιτ’ ἂν καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέρην, ἀλλ’ ὅταν πίῃ καὶ δέξηται αὐτὸ ἐσ ἑωυτὸ τὸ ὑγρόν, τὰ κενὰ καὶ ἀραιὰ ἐπληρώθη καὶ τὰ σμικρὰ πάντῃ καὶ ἀντὶ μαλθακοῦ τε καὶ ἀραιοῦ σκληρόσ τε καὶ πυκνὸσ ἐγένετο καὶ οὔτ’ ἐκπέσσει οὔτ’ ἀφίησι. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxii.15)
  • Παρμενίδησ στεφάνασ εἶναι περιπεπλεγμένασ ἐπαλλήλουσ, τὴν μὲν ἐκ τοῦ ἀραιοῦ τὴν δ’ ἐκ τοῦ πυκνοῦ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 2, 1:1)
  • Παρμενίδησ τὸ τοῦ πυκνοῦ καὶ ἀραιοῦ μῖγμα γαλακτοειδὲσ ἀποτελέσαι χρῶμα. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 3:2)
  • μή, πρὸσ ἀραίου Διόσ, ἔλθῃσ, ἱκετεύω. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, epode1)

Synonyms

  1. thin

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