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ἔνθηρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνθηρος ἔνθηρον

Structure: ἐνθηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qh/r

Sense

  1. full of wild beasts, infested by
  2. savage, wild, rough, untended, undressed

Examples

  • φόβον δ’ ἀγρώσταισ, οἳ κατ’ Ἰδαῖον λέπασ οἰκοῦμεν αὐτόρριζον ἑστίαν χθονόσ, παρέσχε δρυμὸν νυκτὸσ ἔνθηρον μολών. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:4)
  • θῆρεσ, τί τόνδε χλοερὸν ὑλώδη πάγον ἔνθηρον ὡρμήθητε σὺν πολλῇ βοῇ; (Sophocles, Ichneutae 18:1)
  • ἐξ οὐρανοῦ δὲ κἀπὸ γῆσ λειμώνιαι δρόσοι κατεψάκαζον, ἔμπεδον σίνοσ ἐσθημάτων, τιθέντεσ ἔνθηρον τρίχα. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:22)

Synonyms

  1. full of wild beasts

Related

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

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