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ἐπίπονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίπονος ἐπίπονον

Structure: ἐπιπον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. painful, toilsome, laborious, a hard task
  2. laborious, patient of toil
  3. portending distress

Examples

  • πρὸσ γὰρ τῷ ἐπιπόνῳ τοῦ ἔργου καὶ θανάσιμον καὶ δύσοιστον εἶναι τὸν ἀέρα φασὶ τὸν ἐν τοῖσ μετάλλοισ διὰ τὴν βαρύτητα τῆσ τῶν βώλων ὀδμῆσ, ὥστε ὠκύμορα εἶναι τὰ σώματα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 62:11)

Synonyms

  1. painful

Related

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

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