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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

  • σάλπη σκληρά, ἄστομοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 52 2:3)
  • ὁ γρύλλοσ ὅμοιοσ μὲν ἐστιν ἐγχέλει, ἄστομοσ δέ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 52 2:5)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταξὺ δύο λίμναι μεγάλαι, ἡ μὲν ἀνεῳγμένη πρὸσ τὴν θάλατταν ὥστε καὶ λιμένι χρῆσθαι, ἡ δ’ ἄστομοσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 30:14)

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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