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ἡμίβρωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμίβρωτος ἡμίβρωτη ἡμίβρωτον

Structure: ἡμιβρωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. half-eaten

Examples

  • ὧν οἱ μὲν στρεβλούμενοι καὶ πυρὶ καὶ μάστιξιν αἰκιζόμενοι τεθνήκασιν, οἱ δ’ ἀπὸ θηρίων ἡμίβρωτοι πρὸσ δευτέραν αὐτοῖσ τροφὴν ζῶντεσ ἐφυλάχθησαν, γέλωτα καὶ παίγνιον τοῖσ πολεμίοισ παρασχόντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 417:1)

Synonyms

  1. half-eaten

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

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