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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

  • οἱο͂ν ἐξ ἀνθράκων πρινίνων φέψαλοσ ἀνήλατ’ ἐρεθιζόμενοσ οὐρίᾳ ῥιπίδι, ἡνίκ’ ἂν ἐπανθρακίδεσ ὦσι παρακείμεναι, οἱ δὲ Θασίαν ἀνακυκῶσι λιπαράμπυκα, οἱ δὲ μάττωσιν, οὕτω σοβαρὸν ἐλθὲ μέλοσ ἔντονον ἀγροικότερον ὡσ ἐμὲ λαβοῦσα τὸν δημότην. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, strophe2)
  • 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)
  • τὴν δὲ γένεσιν τῶν ζῴων τοιαύτην εἰκάζουσιν οἱάν τὴν τῶν κωνώπων ἐκ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ μετάλλοισ φλογὸσ καὶ τοῦ φεψάλου. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 14 8:10)

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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