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ἦκα?

; 자동번역 Transliteration: ēka

Principal Part: ἦκα

Etym.: ἀκή II

Sense

  1. slightly, a little, softly, gently
  2. stilly, softly, low
  3. softly, smoothly, soft
  4. by little and little

Examples

  • ὁ δ ἤπιον ὄμμα τανύσσας ἦκα διακρίνειν πειρήσατο κάλλος ἑκάστης. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 167)
  • τμῆγε δὲ γογγυλίδος ῥίζας καὶ ἀκαρφέα φλοιὸν ἦκα καθηράμενος λεπτουργέας, ἠελίῳ δὲ αὐήνας ἐπὶ τυτθὸν ὁτὲ ᾿ν ζεστῷ ἀποβάπτων ὕδατι δριμείῃ πολέας ἐμβάπτισον ἅλμῃ, ἄλλοτε δ αὖ λευκὸν γλεῦκος συστάμνισον ὄξει ἶσον ἴσῳ, τὰς δ ἐντὸς ἐπιστύψας ἁλὶ κρύψαις. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 11 1:4)
  • ἰθύσας δ ἄντρου ἐξίκετο πίονα νηὸν ἦκα ποσὶ προβιβῶν: (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 15:6)
  • στῆ δ ἄρ ἐνὶ μέσσῃ ἀγορῇ, ἀνὰ δ ἔσχεθε δειρὴν ἦκα μόλις κυφοῖο μεταφρένου, ὧδέ τ ἐείπεν: (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 12:18)
  • ἦκα δὲ μειδήσας, οἵ οἱ παρὰ ποσσὶν ἔκειντο, τοὺς ἕλεν ἀπροφάτως: (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. slightly

  2. stilly

  3. softly

  4. by little and little

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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