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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

  • μακρὰν οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου πού ποτε ὑπάγετε, μέχρισ ἂν κηρίνασ τὰσ ὑπολήψεισ ἔχητε. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 10:1)
  • λόγου δέ ποτε γενομένου περὶ τοῦ δοξάσειν τὸν σοφὸν καὶ τοῦ Σφαίρου εἰπόντοσ ὡσ οὐ δοξάσει, βουλόμενοσ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἐλέγξαι αὐτόν, κηρίνασ ῥόασ ἐκέλευσε παρατεθῆναι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. s'. SFAIROS 1:2)

Related

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

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