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βόρβορος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: borboros

Principal Part: βόρβορος βόρβορα βόρβορον

Structure: βορβορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. mud, mire

Examples

  • καὶ ἔρριψαν αὐτὸν εἰς λάκκον Μελχίου υἱοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως, ὃς ἦν ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ τῆς φυλακῆς, καὶ ἐχάλασαν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν λάκκον, καὶ ἐν τῷ λάκκῳ οὐκ ἦν ὕδωρ ἀλλ ἢ βόρβορος, καὶ ἦν ἐν τῷ βορβόρῳ. - (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 45:6)
  • σκότος καὶ βόρβορος. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue, iambics11)
  • ἀλλ οὑτοσί μοι βόρβορος φαίνεται πατοῦντι: (Aristophanes, Wasps, Parodos, prelude21)
  • εἰ μὲν κατὰ τοῦτο, ὦ ἄριστε, ὡς πηλίνων κἀμοὶ τῶν ἔργων ὄντων, γνωρίζω τὴν εἰκόνα καί φημι ὅμοιος εἶναι αὐτῷ, οὐδ᾿ ἀναίνομαι πηλοπλάθος ἀκούειν, εἰ καὶ φαυλότερος ἐμοὶ ὁ πηλὸς οἱο῀ς ἐκ τριόδου, βόρβορός τις παρὰ μικρόν: (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 1:2)

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

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