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ἔφαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔφαλος ἔφαλον

Structure: ἐφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls

Sense

  1. on the sea

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

  • εἰ δ’ ὑποβαλλόμενοι κλέπτουσι μύθουσ οἱ μεγάλοι βασιλῆσ ἢ τᾶσ ἀσώτου Σισυφιδᾶν γενεᾶσ, μὴ μή, ἄναξ, ἔθ’ ὧδ’ ἐφάλοισ κλισίαισ ὄμμ’ ἔχων κακὰν φάτιν ἄρῃ. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • Σαπφῷαι δὲ μένουσι φίλησ ἔτι καὶ μενέουσιν ᾠδῆσ αἱ λευκαὶ φθεγγόμεναι σελίδεσ, οὔνομα σὸν μακαριστόν, ὃ Ναύκρατισ ὧδε φυλάξει ἔστ’ ἂν ἰῄ Νείλου ναῦσ ἔφαλοσ τενάγη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 69 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. on the sea

Related

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

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