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ἀχανής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀχανής ἀχανές

Structure: ἀχανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xanei=n, aor2 inf. of xa/skw

Sense

  1. not opening the mouth
  2. yawning, wide

Examples

  • νῦν δὴ ὅλαι δύστηνοι ἐσ ἓν κακὸν ἁρπασθεῖσαι, ἐσ βυθὸν ἐξ ἀχανοῦσ χάσματοσ ἠρίπετε, Βοῦρα καὶ εἰσ Ἑλίκην ^ κεκλυσμέναι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 423 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. not opening the mouth

  2. yawning

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

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