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εὔθρυπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔθρυπτος εὔθρυπτον

Structure: εὐθρυπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qru/ptw

Sense

  1. easily broken, crumbling

Examples

  • καὶ εἴ γε σοι τοῦτο βούλεται εἶναι ὁ Προμηθεύσ, πάνυ εὐστόχωσ ἀποτετόξευται καὶ ἐσ τὴν Ἀττικὴν δριμύτητα τῶν σκωμμάτων, ἐπεὶ καὶ εὔθρυπτα ἡμῖν τὰ ἔργα, ὥσπερ ἐκείνοισ τὰ χυτρίδια, καὶ μικρόν τισ λίθον ἐμβαλὼν συντρίψειεν ἂν πάντα. (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 5:5)
  • ταῦτα δὲ πάντα ἐστὶ μὲν εὔθρυπτα, οὐκ εὐώδη δέ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 54 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. easily broken

Related

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

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