Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὡσ νῦν γε ἐλελήθεισ σαυτὸν τοῖσ ὑπὸ τῶν κοροπλάθων εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν πλαττομένοισ ἐοικώσ, κεχρωσμένοσ μὲν τῇ μίλτῳ καὶ τῷ κυανῷ, τὸ δ’ ἔνδοθεν πήλινόσ τε καὶ εὔθρυπτοσ ὤν. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 22:5)
  • εὔθρυπτόσ τε γάρ ἐστιν ἡ γῆ καὶ ψαθυρὰ πλήρησ τε ἁλμυρίδων καὶ εὐεκπύρωτόσ ἐστι· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 8 27:6)
  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ εὔθρυπτοσ ἡ δὲ στερεὰ καὶ πετρώδησ καὶ σιδηρῖτισ καὶ οὕτωσ ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 71:8)

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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