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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

  • ὁ δὲ ἀλωπεκίασ ὅμοιόσ ἐστι τῇ γεύσει τῷ χερσαίῳ ζῴῳ, διὸ καὶ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ ἔτυχε, καὶ ἡ βατὶσ δὲ εὔστομοσ, ἡ δὲ ἀστερία βατὶσ ἁπαλωτέρα καὶ εὔχυλοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 1:5)
  • κοινῶσ δὲ πάντα τὰ σελάχια φυσώδη ἐστὶ καὶ κρεώδη καὶ δυσκατέργαστα πλεοναζόμενά τε τὰσ ὄψεισ ἀμβλύνει, ἡ δὲ σηπία καὶ ἑψομένη μὲν ἁπαλὴ καὶ εὔστομοσ καὶ εὔπεπτοσ, ἔτι δ’ εὐκοίλιοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 2:5)
  • ἡ δὲ ἑφθὴ σκληροτέρα ἐστὶ καὶ οὐκ εὔστομοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 3:2)
  • ὁ Βενεφρανὸσ εὐστόμαχοσ καὶ κοῦφοσ, ὁ ἐν Νεαπόλει Τρεβιλλικὸσ εὔκρατοσ τῇ δυνάμει, εὐστόμαχοσ, εὔστομοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 4833)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν αὐστηρὸσ εὔστομόσ ἐστι καὶ τρόφιμοσ καὶ μᾶλλον οὐρεῖται, ὁ δὲ γλυκάζων τρόφιμοσ, πλήσμιοσ, κοιλίασ μαλακτικόσ, ὁ δ’ αὐτόκρατοσ τῇ χρείᾳ μέσοσ ἐστί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 59 3:5)

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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