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ἐπίφορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίφορος ἐπίφορον

Structure: ἐπιφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pife/rw

Sense

  1. carrying towards, favourable
  2. sloping
  3. near the time of bringing forth

Examples

  • Ὁ δὲ ὦμοσ, καὶ ὁ βραχίων, καὶ τὰ προσηρτημένα τούτοισιν εὐαπόλυτά ἐστιν ἀπὸ τῶν πλευρέων καὶ τοῦ στήθεοσ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο δύναται καὶ ἀνωτέρω πολὺ ἀνάγεσθαι καὶ κατωτέρω ὅταν οὖν καταγῇ ἡ κληϊσ, τὸ πρὸσ τῷ ὤμῳ ὀστέον ἐσ τὸ κατωτέρω ἐπιῤῬέπει‧ ἐσ τοῦτο γὰρ ἐπιφορώτερον αὐτὸ ἅμα τῷ ὤμῳ καὶ τῷ βραχίονι κάτω Ῥέψαι μᾶλλον, ἢ ἐσ τὸ ἄνω. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.18)

Synonyms

  1. sloping

Related

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

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