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ἡμιμάραντος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιμάραντος ἡμιμάραντον

Structure: ἡμιμαραντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: marai/nw

Sense

  1. half-withered

Examples

  • καὶ γραμματεῖά τε εἰσεφοίτα παρὰ τῆσ γυναικὸσ αὐτῷ καὶ στέφανοι ἡμιμάραντοι καὶ μῆλά τινα ἀποδεδηγμένα καὶ ἄλλα ὁπόσα αἱ μαστροποὶ ἐπὶ τοῖσ νέοισ μηχανῶνται,^ κατὰ μικρὸν αὐτοῖσ ἐπιτεχνώμεναι τοὺσ ἔρωτασ καὶ ἀναφλέγουσαι τὸ πρῶτον ἐρᾶσθαι νομίζοντασ ἐπαγωγότατον γὰρ τοῦτό γε, καὶ μάλιστα τοῖσ καλοῖσ εἶναι οἰομένοισ, ἄχρι· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. half-withered

Similar forms

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

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