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ἐξαπίναιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξαπίναιος ἐξαπίναιᾱ ἐξαπίναιον

Structure: ἐξαπιναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = e)caifni/dios, Xen.

Sense

  1. sudden, unexpected.

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

  • ὅ τι δ’ ἂν ἐξαίφνησ σημήνῃ, θυμοειδῆ ἵππον ὥσπερ ἄνθρωπον ταράττει τὰ ἐξαπίναια καὶ ὁράματα καὶ ἀκούσματα καὶ παθήματα. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 5:1)
  • εἰδέναι δὲ χρὴ ὅτι καὶ ἐν ἵππῳ τὰ ἐξαπίναια τάραχον ἐξεργάζεται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. sudden

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

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