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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

  • ἔστιν δὲ δὴ τοσαῦτά γ’ ἐν δόμοισ ἔτι, ὥσθ’ ἕν γ’ ἐπ’ ἦμαρ τούσδε πληρῶσαι βορᾶσ. (Euripides, episode 7:14)
  • τῆσ δ’ ἐφ’ ἡμέραν βορᾶσ ἐσ σμικρὸν ἥκει· (Euripides, episode 7:16)
  • ὅσαι δ’ Ἐρινύων οὐκ ἐπείσθησαν νόμῳ, δρόμοισ ἀνιδρύτοισιν ἠλάστρουν μ’ ἀεί, ἑώσ ἐσ ἁγνὸν ἦλθον αὖ Φοίβου πέδον, καὶ πρόσθεν ἀδύτων ἐκταθείσ, νῆστισ βορᾶσ, ἐπώμοσ’ αὐτοῦ βίον ἀπορρήξειν θανών, εἰ μή με σώσει Φοῖβοσ, ὅσ μ’ ἀπώλεσεν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:5)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἐπληρώθη στέγη, στεφάνοισι κοσμηθέντεσ εὐόχθου βορᾶσ ψυχὴν ἐπλήρουν. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:15)
  • ἐσ δὲ λειμώνων χλόην καθεῖμεν αὐτάσ, ὡσ βορᾶσ γευσαίατο. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 1:14)

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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