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εὐμήρυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐμήρυτος εὐμήρυτον

Structure: εὐμηρυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mhru/w

Sense

  1. easy to spin out

Examples

  • ἐδούλευεν γὰρ ἢ ἐθήτευεν ἢ ἄλλασ τινὰσ τέχνασ οἱάσ εἰκὸσ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ ἐμάνθανεν, σκυτεύειν ἢ τεκταίνειν ἢ περὶ πλυνοὺσ ἔχειν ἢ ἔρια ξαίνειν, ὡσ εὐεργὰ εἰή ταῖσ γυναιξὶν καὶ εὐμήρυτα καὶ κατάγοιτο εὐμαρῶσ ὁπότε ἢ κρόκην ἐκεῖναι στρέφοιεν ἢ μίτον κλώθοιεν. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 12:4)

Synonyms

  1. easy to spin out

Similar forms

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

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