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βρύχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βρύχιος βρύχιη βρύχιον

Structure: βρυχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From Bru/c, of which an acc. bru/xa occurs in late poets; cf. u(pobru/xios.

Sense

  1. from the depths of the sea, from the deep

Examples

  • ἀμφὶ δὲ κῦμα λάβρον ἀειρόμενον πέτραισ ἐπικαχλάζεσκεν, αἵ θ’ ὁτὲ μὲν κρημνοῖσ ἐναλίγκιαι ἠέρι κῦρον, ἄλλοτε δὲ βρύχιαι νεάτῳ ὑπὸ πυθμένι πόντου ἠρήρειν, τὸ δὲ πολλὸν ὑπείρεχεν ἄγριον οἶδμα. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 15:29)

Synonyms

  1. from the depths of the sea

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

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