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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

  • ἐν ταῖσ τρισὶ περιόδοισ ταύταισ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ὀνόματα πάντα εὐφώνωσ τε σύγκειται καὶ ἡδέωσ τῷ συνεχεῖσ σφόδρα καὶ μαλακὰσ αὐτῶν εἶναι τὰσ ἁρμονίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 43 2:1)
  • "ὥσπερ οὖν τὸ κινοῦν τὸ πεζὸν οὐ δύναται κινῆσαι πτητικῶσ, οὐδὲ τορῶσ τὸ τραυλὸν οὐδ’ εὐφώνωσ τὸ ἰσχνόφωνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν Βάττον, οἶμαι, διὰ τοῦτ’ ἐπὶ τὴν φωνὴν παραγενόμενον εἰσ Λιβύην ἔπεμψεν οἰκιστήν, ὅτι τραυλὸσ μὲν ἦν καὶ ἰσχνόφωνοσ βασιλικὸσ δὲ καὶ πολιτικὸσ καὶ φρόνιμοσ· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 228)

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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