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γαῦρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γαῦρος

Structure: γαυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gai/w

Sense

  1. exulting in, haughty, disdainful, skittish

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

  • γαῦρόσ τε γὰρ ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου καὶ μετέωρόσ εἰμι καὶ ὅλωσ μικρὸν οὐκέτι οὐδὲν ἐπινοῶ· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 5:2)
  • ᾧ βίοσ μὲν ἦν πολύσ, ἥκιστα δ’ ὄλβῳ γαῦροσ ἦν· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode15)
  • ἒ ἒ ὡσ γαῦροσ, ὡσ φοβερὸσ εἰσιδεῖν, γίγαντι γηγενέτᾳ προσόμοιοσ ἀστερωπὸσ ἐν γραφαῖσιν, οὐχὶ πρόσφοροσ ἁμερίῳ γέννᾳ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric16)
  • Διογένησ τε πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐγκαλοῦντασ αὐτῷ ἀποτριβομένῳ ἔλεγεν ’ εἴθ’ ἠδυνάμην καὶ τὴν γαστέρα τρίψασ τῆσ πείνησ καὶ τῆσ ἐνδείασ παύσασθαι ὁ δ’ Εὐριπίδησ ἐν Ἱκέτισι περὶ τοῦ Καπανέωσ φησὶν Καπανεὺσ ὅδ’ ἐστὶν ᾧ βίοσ μὲν ἦν πολύσ, ἥκιστα δ’ ὄλβῳ γαῦροσ ἦν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 48 2:3)
  • ὁ δὲ κύων ἀναστρέψασ προηγεῖτο γαῦροσ καὶ περιχαρήσ, οἱο͂ν ἑαυτοῦ ποιούμενοσ; (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 13 14:1)

Related

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

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