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κατηρεφής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατηρεφής κατηρεφές

Structure: κατηρεφη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)re/fw

Sense

  1. covered over, vaulted, overhanging, thick-leaved, covered
  2. covered, shaded, embowered, covered with or by

Examples

  • τὸν δὲ λίθον ἔτεμνον ὑπὸ τῆσ νήσου κύκλῳ τῆσ ἐν μέσῳ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν τροχῶν ἔξωθεν καὶ ἐντόσ, τὸν μὲν λευκόν, τὸν δὲ μέλανα, τὸν δὲ ἐρυθρὸν ὄντα, τέμνοντεσ δὲ ἅμ’ ἠργάζοντο νεωσοίκουσ κοίλουσ διπλοῦσ ἐντόσ, κατηρεφεῖσ αὐτῇ τῇ πέτρᾳ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 68:3)
  • ἀλλ’ οὕτωσ ἐφάνη σεμνὰ καὶ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ προσχήματοσ οἰκεῖα τὰ ἔθη τοῖσ νικήσασι τὰ τῶν νικηθέντων, ὥστ’ ἀντὶ γυμνητῶν καὶ ψιλῶν θηλυστολεῖν ὑπέμειναν, καὶ κατηρεφεῖσ εἶναι τοῖσ σκεπάσμασι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 13 12:8)

Synonyms

  1. covered

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

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