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κέρτομος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κέρτομος κέρτομον

Structure: κερτομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ke/ar, te/mnw

Sense

  1. heart-cutting, stinging, reproachful, abusive
  2. mocking, delusive

Examples

  • παῖδά τιν’ εὑρ͂ον τόνδε διαπρύσιον κεραϊστὴν Κυλλήνησ ἐν ὄρεσσι, πολὺν διὰ χῶρον ἀνύσσασ, κέρτομον, οἱο͂ν ἐγώ γε θεῶν οὐκ ἄλλον ὄπωπα οὐδ’ ἀνδρῶν, ὁπόσοι λησίμβροτοί εἰσ’ ἐπὶ γαίῃ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 38:3)
  • δηλοῦσι δὲ καὶ αἱ τῶν θριάμβων εἴσοδοι παλαιὰν καὶ ἐπιχώριον οὖσαν Ῥωμαίοισ τὴν κέρτομον καὶ σατυρικὴν παιδιάν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 18:1)

Synonyms

  1. heart-cutting

Related

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

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