βραχύς
First/Third declension Adjective;
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
βραχύς
βραχεῖα
βραχύ
Structure:
βραχυ
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- (of time) short, brief
- (of distance, height) short, small, little
- few
- (of importance) humble, insignificant
- (grammar, of vowels) short
Declension
First/Third 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.
- ἔκρινε τούτων οἷσι τὰ βραχύτατα γίνοιτο περὶ εἰκοστήν, τοῖσι δὲ πλείστοισι περὶ τεσσαρακοστήν, πολλοῖσι δὲ περὶ τὰσ ὀγδοήκοντα. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 38)
- ἔστι δ’ οἷσιν ἔκρινεν αὐτῶν ὀλίγοισιν, οἷσι τὰ βραχύτατα γένοιτο, περὶ ὀγδοηκοστὴν ἐοῦσι, καὶ τούτων ἐνίοισ ὑπέστρεφεν, ὥστε κατὰ χειμῶνα τοὺσ πλείστουσ αὐτῶν ἔτι νοσεῖν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 85)
- τῶν δὲ Καμαριναίων καταπλαγέντων τὸ αἰφνίδιον τῆσ παρουσίασ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν μὲν ἀνοίγειν τὰσ πύλασ καὶ δέχεσθαι τὸν ὕπατον ἀξιούντων, τῶν δ’ ἀμύνεσθαι πάσῃ δυνάμει καὶ μὴ παριέναι τοὺσ πολεμίουσ εἴσω, ἐν ᾧ τὸ ταραττόμενόν τε καὶ στασιάζον αὐτῶν ἐπεκράτει, τὰσ πύλασ ἐκκόψασ καὶ τὰ βραχύτατα τῶν ἐρυμάτων κλίμαξι καταλαβόμενοσ κατὰ κράτοσ εἰλήφει τὴν πόλιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 49 5:3)
- ἅμα δὲ ταῦτ’ ἔλεγε, καὶ στρατιὰν ἀθρόωσ κατέλεγεν ἐλευθέρων τε καὶ δούλων, ὅπλα τε πολλὰ καὶ βέλη καὶ μηχανὰσ ἐπήγνυ, φειδόμενοσ οὔτε τινὸσ ὕλασ οὔτε βοῶν ἀροτήρων ἐσ τὰ νεῦρα, ἐσφοράσ τε πᾶσιν ἐσ τὰ βραχύτατα τῆσ περιουσίασ ἐπέγραφεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 2:9)
- τὸ μὲν οὖν περὶ πολλῶν ἢ ὀλίγων γραμμάτων ποιήσασθαι τὸν λόγον λίαν εὐήθεσ ‐ τὰ γὰρ οἶμαι βέλτιστα, ἀλλ’ οὐ τὰ βραχύτατα οὐδὲ τὰ μήκη τιμητέον ‐ τὰ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ νυνδὴ νόμοισ ῥηθεῖσιν οὐ διπλῷ θάτερα τῶν ἑτέρων διάφορα μόνον εἰσ ἀρετὴν τῆσ χρείασ, ἀλλ’ ὅπερ ἐρρήθη νυνδή, τὸ τῶν διττῶν ἰατρῶν γένοσ ὀρθότατα παρετέθη. (Plato, Laws, book 4 113:4)
Synonyms
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short
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short
- παῦρος (little, small, short)
- ἐλαχύς (small, short, mean)
- τυτθός (little, small)
- τυννός (so small, so little)
- μικρός (little, small)
- ὀλίγος (Of small size: little, small)
- ἀήσυρος (light as air, small, little)
- μικρότης (smallness: littleness, meanness, pettiness)
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few
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humble
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short