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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

  • αἱ βάλανοι δ’ εἰ μείζονεσ, εὐέκκριτοι καὶ εὔστομοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 351)
  • "τῶν δὲ μελάνων καὶ πυρρῶν οἱ μείζονεσ καὶ εὔσαρκοι εὔστομοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 3:3)
  • "αἱ δὲ βάλανοι καλούμεναι ἀπὸ τῆσ πρὸσ τὰσ δρυίνασ ὁμοιότητοσ διαφέρουσι κατὰ τοὺσ τόπουσ, αἱ μὲν γὰρ Αἰγύπτιαι γλυκεῖαι, ἁπαλαί, εὔστομοι, θρεπτικαί, πολύχυλοι, οὐρητικαί, εὐκοίλιοι, αἱ δὲ ἄλλαι ἁλυκώτεραι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 4:1)
  • "αἱ δὲ φωλάδεσ εὔστομοι, βρομώδεισ δὲ καὶ κακόχυλοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 4:3)
  • "εἰσὶ δὲ σκληροὶ καὶ ὀλιγόχυλοι καὶ οὐκ ἄγαν δριμεῖαι, εὔστομοι δὲ καὶ εὐκατέργαστοι, ἑφθαὶ δὲ ποσῶσ εὔστομοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 8:3)

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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