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ἐπιπόλαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιπόλαιος ἐπιπόλαιον

Structure: ἐπιπολαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pipolh/

Sense

  1. on the surface, superficial, superficial, common-place
  2. prominent

Examples

  • "γίγνονται γάρ τινεσ ἡμῖν ἐκ τῶν καθ’ ἡμέραν συμποσίων ἐπιπόλαιοι δριμύτητεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 674)
  • ὅτι οἱ μὲν σοὶ τὸ κατ’ εὐθὺ μόνον ὁρῶσιν, οἱ δὲ ἐμοὶ καὶ τὸ ἐκ πλαγίου διὰ τὸ ἐπιπόλαιοι εἶναι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 5 6:5)

Synonyms

  1. prominent

Related

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

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