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κήρινος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κήρινος κήρινη κήρινον

Structure: κηριν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: khro/s

Sense

  1. of wax, waxen, pliable as wax, cereus in vitium flecti)

Examples

  • ἔστι δ’ ὡσ οὐδὲ τὰ στοιχεῖα πάντα τῆσ συλλαβῆσ ἐν τῷ λόγῳ ἐνέσται, οἱο͂ν ταδὶ τὰ κήρινα ἢ τὰ ἐν τῷ ἀέρι· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 143:3)
  • περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα οὐκ ἄξιον ἐπιχειρεῖν πείθειν, ἄν ποτε ἄρα ἴδωσί που κήρινα μιμήματα πεπλασμένα, εἴτ’ ἐπὶ θύραισ εἴτ’ ἐπὶ τριόδοισ εἴτ’ ἐπὶ μνήμασι γονέων αὐτῶν τινεσ, ὀλιγωρεῖν πάντων τῶν τοιούτων διακελεύεσθαι μὴ σαφὲσ ἔχουσι δόγμα περὶ αὐτῶν. (Plato, Laws, book 11 134:1)

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

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