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ἕωλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕωλος ἕωλον

Structure: ἑωλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prob. from e(/ws, h)w/s

Sense

  1. a day old, kept till the morrow, stale, stinking
  2. stale, out of date
  3. coming a day too late

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • επὶ τὰ ἑώλοι τῆσ σαρκοφαγίοισ προσφάτουσ ἡμᾶσ ὁ λόγοσ παρακαλεῖ ταῖσ τε διανοίαισ καὶ ταῖσ προθυμίαισ γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 11)
  • τὸ μὴ γὰρ ἀποχρῆν ἀποθανεῖν αὐτοῖσ ἁλοῦσιν, εἶτα κατεδηδεσμένοισ εὐθὺσ ταφῆναι, παραδοθέντεσ ἄθλιοι τοῖσ ἰχθυοπώλαισ τοῖσ κακῶσ ἀπολουμένοισ σήπονθ’, ἑώλοι κείμενοι δύ’ ἡμέρασ ἢ τρεῖσ, μόλισ δ’ ἐὰν ποτ’ ὠνητὴν τυφλὸν λάβωσ1’, ἔδωκαν τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναίρεσιν τούτῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 7 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. coming a day too late

Related

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

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