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ἐρεμνός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρεμνός ἐρεμνή ἐρεμνόν

Structure: ἐρεμν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: syncop. from e)rebenno/s

Sense

  1. black, swart, dark, dark, obscure

Examples

  • τοιάδ’ ἐρεμνὴ σῖγ’ ἐπέρχεται φάτισ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:10)
  • κἀκφυσιῶν ὀξεῖαν αἵματοσ σφαγὴν βάλλει μ’ ἐρεμνῇ ψακάδι φοινίασ δρόσου, χαίρουσαν οὐδὲν ἧσσον ἢ διοσδότῳ γάνει σπορητὸσ κάλυκοσ ἐν λοχεύμασιν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 6:11)
  • μυκηθμῷ δ’ ὑπένερθεν ἐρεμνὴ σείετο γαῖα, ῥίζησ τεμνομένησ Τιτηνίδοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 14:30)
  • ἐπήλυθε δ’ αὐτίκ’ ἐρεμνὴ ἕσπεροσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 20:35)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐρεμνῇ νυκτὶ ἐοικώσ, γυμνὸν τόξον ἔχων καὶ ἐπὶ νευρῆφιν ὀιστόν, δεινὸν παπταίνων, αἰεὶ βαλέοντι ἐοικώσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 75:4)

Synonyms

  1. black

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

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