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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

  • Δίφιλόσ φησι τοὺσ μύκητασ εἶναι εὐστόμουσ, κοιλίασ διαχωρητικούσ, θρεπτικούσ, δυσπέπτουσ δὲ καὶ φυσώδεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5293)
  • τοὺσ μὲν οὖν ἵππουσ οἱ καλῶσ τρέφοντεσ εὐστόμουσ τῷ χαλινῷ , τοὺσ δὲ παῖδασ εὐηκόουσ τῷ λόγῳ παρέχουσι, πολλὰ μὲν ἀκούειν μὴ πολλὰ δὲ λέγειν διδασκομένουσ. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 3 10:1)
  • τὴν μὲν γὰρ Ἰνδικὴν ῥίζαν, ἥν φησι Μεγασθένησ τοὺσ μήτ’ ἐσθίοντασ μήτε πίνοντασ ἀλλ’ εὐστόμουσ ὄντασ ὑποτύφειν καὶ θυμιᾶν καὶ τρέφεσθαι τῇ ὀσμῇ, πόθεν ἄν τισ ἐκεῖ φυομένην λάβοι, μὴ βρεχομένησ τῆσ σελήνησ; (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 24 15:2)
  • πυκνόπτεροι δ’ εἴσω κατ’ αὐτὸν εὐστομοῦσ’ ἀηδόνεσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:9)

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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