Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὔστομος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔστομος εὔστομον

Structure: εὐστομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sto/ma

Sense

  1. with mouth of good size
  2. speaking well, eloquent, making eloquent
  3. avoiding words of ill omen, a religious silence, peace, be still!

Examples

  • εὐστομάχων ἢ τῶν εὐστόμων, καὶ τῶν τὴν πέψιν μὴ ταραττόντων ἢ τῶν τὴν γεῦσιν σφόδρα γαργαλιζόντων. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 26 5:1)
  • τί νιν προσείπω, κἂν τύχω μάλ’ εὐστομῶν; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. with mouth of good size

  2. speaking well

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

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