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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

  • φιλέοι δ’ ὅ γε κέρτομα βάζειν ψεύδεά θ’ αἱμυλίουσ τε λόγουσ κρυφίουσ τ’ ὀαρισμούσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 95:5)
  • ἀνδρῶν δὲ πολλοὶ τοῦ γέλωτοσ εἵνεκα ἀσκοῦσι χάριτασ κερτόμουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 2 1:2)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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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