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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

  • μιαρὸν τὸ χρῆμα καὶ κάκοσμον καὶ βορόν· (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue 1:28)
  • Φυρόμαχον τὸν πάντα φαγεῖν βορόν, οἱᾶ κορώνην παννυχικήν, αὕτη ῥωγὰσ ἔχει κάπετοσ χλαίνησ ἐν τρύχει Πελληνίδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 73)
  • ἀγρυπνέουσι γάρ· ἀγρυπνίη δὲ βορόν· ἀτὰρ οὐδὲ ἰσχνοὶ ὡσ νοσέοντεσ· μελαγχολών των μᾶλλον εὐσαρκίη· καὶ ὕπωχροι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 83)

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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