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ἐμφερής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμφερής ἐμφερές

Structure: ἐμφερη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)mfe/rw

Sense

  1. answering to, resembling

Examples

  • "εἶχεν δὲ καὶ δᾷδα ἐν τῇ ἀριστερᾷ καὶ ξίφοσ ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ ὅσον εἰκοσάπηχυ, καὶ τὰ μὲν ἔνερθεν ὀφιόπουσ ἦν, τὰ δὲ ἄνω Γοργόνι ἐμφερήσ, τὸ βλέμμα φημὶ καὶ τὸ φρικῶδεσ τῆσ προσόψεωσ, καὶ ἀντὶ τῆσ κόμησ τοὺσ δράκοντασ βοστρυχηδὸν καθεῖτο εἰλουμένουσ περὶ τὸν αὐχένα καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων ἐνίουσ ἐσπειραμένουσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 20:4)
  • ἢν ἐπιμελὴσ ὦ καὶ προθύμωσ μανθάνω, τῷ τῶν μαθητῶν ἐμφερὴσ γενήσομαι; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Episode27)
  • "χρήσιμοσ καὶ ὁ Πριούερνοσ λεπτομερέστεροσ ὢν τοῦ Ῥηγίνου ἥκιστά τε καθαπτόμενοσ κεφαλῆσ, τούτῳ ἐμφερὴσ ὁ Φορμιανόσ, ταχὺ δὲ ἀκμάζει καὶ λιπαρώτερόσ ἐστιν αὐτοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 4811)
  • "ὁ δὲ Στατανὸσ τῶν πρώτων ἐστὶν οἴνων, ἐμφερὴσ τῷ Φαλερίνῳ, κουφότεροσ, οὐ πληκτικόσ, ὁ Τιβουρτῖνοσ λεπτόσ, εὐδιάπνευστοσ, ἀκμάζων ἀπὸ ἐτῶν δέκα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 4813)
  • "Αἰκουανὸσ κατὰ πολλὰ τῷ Συρεντίνῳ παρεμφερήσ, ὁ Βαρῖνοσ λίαν αὐστηρὸσ καὶ ἀεὶ ἑαυτοῦ κρείττων γίνεται, εὐγενὴσ καὶ ὁ Καυκῖνοσ καὶ τῷ Φαλερίνῳ ἐμφερήσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 4832)

Synonyms

  1. answering to

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

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