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φέψαλος

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φέψαλος φέψαλου

Structure: φεψαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a spark, piece of the embers

Declension

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

  • ἔχουσι γὰρ καὶ κέντρον ἐκ τῆσ ὀσφύοσ ὀξύτατον, ᾧ κεντοῦσι, καὶ κεκραγότεσ πηδῶσι καὶ βάλλουσιν ὥσπερ φέψαλοι. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 5:42)
  • φέψαλοι γάρ εἰσιν οἱ σπινθῆρεσ . (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown10)

Synonyms

  1. a spark

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

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