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εὔφωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔφωνος

Structure: εὐφων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fwnh/

Sense

  1. sweet-voiced, musical
  2. loud-voiced

Examples

  • ταυτὶ μὲν παρὰ πολὺ ὁ ἡμέτεροσ ἄμεινον καὶ εὐφωνότερον τραχύνεται. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 35:6)
  • "Θάμυριν δὲ τὸ γένοσ Θρᾷκα εὐφωνότερον καὶ ἐμμελέστερον πάντων τῶν τότε ᾆσαι, ὡσ ταῖσ; (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 3 1:8)
  • ἢ οὐχ ὁρᾷσ, ὅτι οὐκ εὐφωνότερον οὐδὲ ἥδιον ὁ Πῶλοσ τὸν τύραννον Οἰδίποδα ὑπεκρίνετο ἢ τὸν ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ ἀλήτην καὶ πτωχόν; (Epictetus, Works, book 0 10:4)
  • ἔστι δ’ ἡ Σικελία τρίγωνοσ τῷ σχήματι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Τρινακρία μὲν πρότερον, Θρινακία δ’ ὕστερον προσηγορεύθη μετονομασθεῖσα εὐφωνότερον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. sweet-voiced

  2. loud-voiced

Related

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

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