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ἡμίφλεκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμίφλεκτος ἡμίφλεκτον

Structure: ἡμιφλεκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fle/gw

Sense

  1. half-burnt

Examples

  • "οὐκ ἀπ’ ἐλπίδοσ μὴ ἀναπηδήσασθαι αὐτὸν καὶ ἡμίφλεκτον, εἰ μή, ὅπερ φασί, μηχανήσεται βαθεῖαν γενέσθαι καὶ ἐν βόθρῳ τὴν πυράν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:78)
  • νῦν δὲ χάριν μὲν ἔφαν τᾷ Κύπριδι πρᾶτον ὀφείλειν, καὶ μετὰ τὰν Κύπριν τύ με δευτέρα ἐκ πυρὸσ εἵλευ ὦ γύναι ἐσκαλέσασα τεὸν ποτὶ τοῦτο μέλαθρον αὔτωσ ἡμίφλεκτον· (Theocritus, Idylls, 93)

Synonyms

  1. half-burnt

Related

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

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