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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

  • οὐ μόνον δ’ ἐκ τῆσ ἐναγωνίου τε καὶ κατεσπουδασμένησ ὀρχήσεωσ τῶν χορῶν, ᾗ παρὰ τὰσ θυηπολίασ τε καὶ πομπὰσ ἐχρῶντο Ῥωμαῖοι, τὸ συγγενὲσ ἄν τισ αὐτῶν τὸ πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἴδοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τῆσ κερτόμου καὶ τωθαστικῆσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 72 16:1)

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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