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φερέσβιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φερέσβιος φερέσβιον

Structure: φερεσβι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. life-giving

Examples

  • ἐσσυμένωσ δ’ ἠίξε κατ’ Οὐλύμποιο καρήνων, ἐσ δ’ ἄρα Ῥάριον ἷξε, φερέσβιον οὖθαρ ἀρούρησ τὸ πρίν, ἀτὰρ τότε γ’ οὔτι φερέσβιον, ἀλλὰ ἕκηλον ἑστήκει πανάφυλλον· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 45:1)
  • α[ἶψα δὲ κα]ρπὸν ἀέξε φερέσβιον ἀνθρώποισιν. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 46:6)
  • δὲ φερέσβιον τὸν ἀέρα, τὴν δὲ γῆν τὸν Αἰδωνέα, Νῆστιν δὲ καὶ κρούνωμα βρότειον οἱονεὶ τὸ σπέρμα καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, chapter 3 43:1)
  • τέχνησ πυρσὸν ὄπασσα φερέσβιον ἐκ δ’ ἄρα τέχνησ καὶ πυρὸσ ἀλλήκτου πήματοσ ὄψιν ἔχω. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 871)

Synonyms

  1. life-giving

Related

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

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