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βορός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βορός

Structure: βορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bibrw/skw

Sense

  1. devouring, gluttonous

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ ἐν γαστρὸσ βορᾷ τὸ χρηστὸν εἶναι, μέτρια δ’ ἐξαρκεῖν ἔφη. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode17)
  • οὐ χοροῖσιν οὐδ’ ὑφ’ ἡλίκων νεανίδων κημὸν ἕστηκ’ ἔχουσ’, ἀλλ’ ἐν πυκνοῖσ δεσμοῖσιν ἐμπεπλεγμένη κήτει βορὰ Γλαυκέτῃ πρόκειμαι, γαμηλίῳ μὲν οὐ ξὺν παιῶνι δεσμίῳ δὲ γοᾶσθέ μ’ ὦ γυναῖκεσ, ὡσ μέλεα μὲν πέπονθα μέλεοσ, ὦ τάλασ ἐγὼ τάλασ, ἀπὸ δὲ συγγόνων τάλαν’ ἄνομα πάθεα, φῶτά <τε> λιτομέναν, πολυδάκρυτον Αἴδα γόον φεύγουσαν αἰαῖ αἰαῖ ἒ ἒ, ὃσ ἔμ’ ἀπεξύρησε πρῶτον, ὃσ ἐμὲ κροκόεντ’ ἐνέδυσεν· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, lyric8)
  • ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν τὰ Ταντάλου θεοῖσιν ἑστιάματα ἄπιστα κρίνω, παιδὸσ ἡσθῆναι βορᾷ, τοὺσ δ’ ἐνθάδ’, αὐτοὺσ ὄντασ ἀνθρωποκτόνουσ, ἐσ τὴν θεὸν τὸ φαῦλον ἀναφέρειν δοκῶ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 8:3)
  • οὑτωσὶ μὲν εἰπεῖν, χρηστότησ ἐπέτριψεν αὐτὸν καὶ φιλανθρωπία καὶ ὁ πρὸσ τοὺσ δεομένουσ ἅπαντασ οἶκτοσ, ὡσ δὲ ἀληθεῖ λόγῳ, ἄνοια καὶ εὐήθεια καὶ ἀκρισία περὶ τῶν φίλων, ὃσ οὐ συνίει κόραξι καὶ λύκοισ χαριζόμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ γυπῶν τοσούτων ὁ κακοδαίμων κειρόμενοσ τὸ ἧπαρ φίλουσ εἶναι αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἑταίρουσ ᾤετο, ὑπ’ εὐνοίασ τῆσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν χαίροντασ τῇ βορᾷ· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 8:1)
  • φρόνημα δὲ οὐδέν τι μεῖζον εἶχεν ἢ πένησ ἀνήρ, ψέγων τραπέζαισ εἴ τισ ἐξογκοῖτ’ ἄγαν, τἀρκοῦν ἐπαινῶν οὐ γὰρ ἐν γαστρὸσ βορᾷ τὸ χρηστὸν εἶναι, μέτρια δ’ ἐξαρκεῖν ἔφη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 48 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. devouring

Similar forms

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

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