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ἐφίμερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφίμερος ἐφίμερον

Structure: ἐφιμερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. longed for, desired, charming

Examples

  • "περὶ γοῦν τῆσ Θάσου λέγων ὡσ ἥσσονόσ φησιν οὐ γάρ τι καλὸσ χῶροσ οὐδ’ ἐφίμεροσ οὐδ’ ἐρατόσ, οἱο͂σ ἀμφὶ Σίριοσ ῥοάσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:36)
  • ἀλλ’ ἡ τέκνων δῆτ’ ὄψισ ἦν ἐφίμεροσ, βλαστοῦσ’ ὅπωσ ἔβλαστε, προσλεύσσειν ἐμοί; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode5)
  • ἁδύ τι τὸ στόμα τευ καὶ ἐφίμεροσ ὦ Δάφνι φωνά. (Theocritus, Idylls, 64)

Synonyms

  1. longed for

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

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