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βαρβαρόφωνος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: barbarophōnos

Principal Part: βαρβαρόφωνος

Structure: βαρβαροφων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: φωνή

Sense

  1. speaking a foreign tongue

Examples

  • χρησμὸς Πυθίας φράζεο βαρβαρόφωνος ὅταν ζυγὸν εἰς ἅλα βάλλῃ βύβλινον, Εὐβοϊής ἀπέχειν πολυμηκάδας αἶγας. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 971)
  • φράζεο, βαρβαρόφωνος ὅταν ζυγὸν εἰς ἅλα βάλλῃ βύβλινον, Εὐβοίης ἀπέχειν πολυμηκάδας αἶγας. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 20 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. speaking a foreign tongue

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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