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ἄστομος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄστομος

Structure: ἀστομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sto/ma

Sense

  1. without mouth, hardmouthed, restive
  2. soft-mouthed, unable to hold with the teeth
  3. soft, incapable of a fine edge

Examples

  • ταύτασ φησὶν Ἱκέσιοσ τροφιμωτέρασ εἶναι τῶν γόγγρων, ἀπειθεῖσ δὲ τὴν γεῦσιν καὶ ἀστόμουσ, εὐχυλίᾳ δὲ μέσουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1222)
  • οὐ βλέπεισ πῶσ κέχρηται τοῖσ δεινοτάτοισ τῶν Ἑλλήνων περὶ λόγουσ Ὀδυσσεῖ καὶ Φοίνικι, πῶσ αὐτοὺσ ἀστόμουσ πεποίηκε; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 26:2)
  • οὗτοι γάρ εἰσιν οἱ τοὺσ ἐνωτοκοίτασ καὶ τοὺσ ἀστόμουσ καὶ ἄρρινασ ἱστοροῦντεσ μονοφθάλμουσ τε καὶ μακροσκελεῖσ καὶ ὀπισθοδακτύλουσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 17:4)
  • ἀστόμουσ δέ τινασ ἀχθῆναι ἡμέρουσ ἀνθρώπουσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 114:11)

Synonyms

  1. without mouth

Related

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

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