Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κελαινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κελαινός κελαινή κελαινόν

Structure: κελαιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. black, swart, dark, murky

Examples

  • δεινὸν γὰρ ἴχνοσ βάλλουσ’ ἐπὶ σοὶ χειροδράκοντεσ χρῶτα κελαιναί, δεινῶν ὀδυνῶν καρπὸν ἔχουσαι· (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:18)
  • οὔτ’ ἄν νιν ὄλβοσ οὔτ’ Ἄρησ, οὐ πύργοσ, οὐχ ἁλίκτυποι κελαιναὶ νᾶεσ ἐκφύγοιεν. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 15)
  • πολὺ γὰρ τῆσ Ἴδησ ἄπωθεν αἱ Κελαιναί, πολὺ δὲ καὶ αἱ τοῦ Καί̈κου πηγαί· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 119:5)

Synonyms

  1. black

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

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