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διαβόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαβόρος διαβόρον

Structure: διαβορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: diabibrw/skw

Sense

  1. eating through, devouring
  2. eaten through, consumed

Examples

  • ἀκτὴ μὲν ἥδε τῆσ περιρρύτου χθονὸσ Λήμνου, βροτοῖσ ἄστιπτοσ οὐδ’ οἰκουμένη, ἔνθ’, ὦ κρατίστου πατρὸσ Ἑλλήνων τραφεὶσ Ἀχιλλέωσ παῖ Νεοπτόλεμε, τὸν Μηλιᾶ Ποίαντοσ υἱὸν ἐξέθηκ’ ἐγώ ποτε, ταχθεὶσ τόδ’ ἔρδειν τῶν ἀνασσόντων ὕπο, νόσῳ καταστάζοντα διαβόρῳ πόδα· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. eaten through

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

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