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ἔντονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔντονος ἔντονον

Structure: ἐντον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)ntei/nw

Sense

  1. well-strung, sinewy, intense, earnest, eager, vehement, eagerly, violently

Examples

  • ὁκόσοι δὲ λεπτά τε καὶ ἄνυδρα καὶ ψιλά, τῇσι μεταβολῇσι τῶν ὡρέων οὐκ εὔκρητα, ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ χώρῃ τὰ εἴδεα εἰκὸσ σκληρά τε εἶναι καὶ ἔντονα καὶ ξανθότερα ἢ μελάντερα καὶ τὰ ἤθεα καὶ τὰσ ὀργὰσ αὐθάδεάσ τε καὶ ἰδιογνώμονασ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxiv.10)

Synonyms

  1. well-strung

Related

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

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