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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 stale, out of date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

  • καὶ εἶπα. μηδαμῶσ, Κύριε Θεὲ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. ἰδοὺ ἡ ψυχή μου σὺ μεμίανται ἐν ἀκαθαρσίᾳ, καὶ θνησιμαῖον καὶ θηριάλωτον οὐ βέβρωκα ἀπὸ γενέσεώσ μου ἕωσ τοῦ νῦν, οὐδὲ εἰσελήλυθεν εἰσ τὸ στόμα μου πᾶν κρέασ ἕωλον. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 4:14)
  • ἀδικεῖσ, ὦ Χάρων, ἑώλον ἤδη νεκρὸν ἀπολιμπάνων ἀμέλει γράψομαί σε παρανόμων ἐπὶ τοῦ Ῥαδαμάνθυοσ. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 18:5)
  • τό τε γὰρ μὴ ἑώλον εἶναι τὴν κρίσιν, ἀλλὰ καινὴν καὶ ξένην χθέσ, ὥσπερ ἔφησ, ἐπηγγελμένην,^ καὶ τὸ ἐλπίζειν ἀκούσεσθαι Ῥητορικῆσ μὲν καὶ Διαλόγου ἐν τῷ μέρει κατηγορούντων, ἀπολογουμένου δὲ πρὸσ ἀμφοτέρουσ τοῦ Σύρου, τοῦτο πολλοὺσ ἐπήγαγε τῷ δικαστηρίῳ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 25:10)
  • ἑώλον μέν, ὦ Προμηθεῦ, τὴν ἔφεσιν ἀγωνιῇ καὶ ἐσ οὐδὲν δέον ὅμωσ δ’ οὖν λέγε· (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 4:4)
  • καίτοι τάσ γε ἀπάτασ, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, τὰσ τοιαύτασ συμποτικὰσ οὔσασ οὐ χρή, οἶμαι, ἀπομνημονεύειν, ἀλλ’ εἰ καί τι ἡμάρτηται μεταξὺ εὐωχουμένων, παιδιὰν ἡγεῖσθαι καὶ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ συμποσίῳ καταλιπεῖν τὴν ὀργὴν ἐσ δὲ τὴν αὔριον ταμιεύεσθαι τὸ μῖσοσ καὶ μνησικακεῖν καὶ ἑώλόν τινα μῆνιν διαφυλάττειν, ἄπαγε, οὔτε θεοῖσ πρέπον οὔτε ἄλλωσ βασιλικὸν ἢν γοῦν ἀφέλῃ τισ τῶν συμποσίων τὰσ κομψείασ ταύτασ, ἀπάτην καὶ σκώμματα καὶ τὸ διασιλλαίνειν καὶ ἐπιγελᾶν, τὸ καταλειπόμενόν ἐστι μέθη καὶ κόροσ καὶ σιωπή, σκυθρωπὰ καὶ ἀτερπῆ πράγματα καὶ ἥκιστα συμποσίῳ πρέποντα. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 8:1)

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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