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βόρβορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βόρβορος βόρβορᾱ 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, οὐδ̓ ἀναίνομαι πηλοπλάθοσ ἀκούειν, εἰ καὶ φαυλότεροσ ἐμοὶ ὁ πηλὸσ οἱο͂σ 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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