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λᾱ́βρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λᾱ́βρος λᾱ́βρος λάβρον

Structure: λᾱβρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. (Homeric, of wind and water) furious, boisterous
  2. (Homeric, of the Hellespont personified) huge, mighty
  3. (Post-Homeric, of men) boisterous, turbulent
  4. (Post-Homeric, of men, of speech) hasty
  5. (Post-Homeric, of men) fierce, violent, impetuous

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐσθίουσιν δὲ αἳ μὲν λάβρωσ αἳ δὲ κοσμίωσ, καὶ τὸ κόσμιον γενναιότερον τοῦ ἀκόσμου. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 8 1:1)
  • οὔτε πόντοσ οὕτωσ κύμασιν στένων λάβρωσ οὔτε γῆσ σεισμὸσ κεραυνοῦ τ’ οἶστροσ ὠδῖνασ πνέων, οἷ’ ἐγὼ στάδια δραμοῦμαι στέρνον εἰσ Ἡρακλέουσ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, trochees3)
  • μὴ λυπείτω δὲ σ1’ ὁρῶντα ἰχῶρα στάζοντα κρεῶν, ἀλλ’ ἔσθιε λάβρωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 61 1:1)
  • οὗτοι ἀνιπτόποδεσ, χαμαιευνάδεσ, ἀερίοικοι, κατὰ τὸν κωμικὸν Εὔβουλον, ἀνόσιοι λάρυγγεσ, ἀλλοτρίων κτεάνων παραδειπνίδεσ, οὐ χὠ> προπάτωρ ὑμῶν Διογένησ πλακοῦντά ποτε ἐσθίων ἐν δείπνῳ λάβρωσ πρὸσ τὸν πυνθανόμενον ἔλεγεν ἄρτον ἐσθίειν καλῶσ πεποιημένον; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 80 2:1)
  • Διὸσ δέ τοί πτηνὸσ κύων, δαφοινὸσ αἰετόσ, λάβρωσ διαρταμήσει σώματοσ μέγα ῥάκοσ, ἄκλητοσ ἑρ́πων δαιταλεὺσ πανήμεροσ, κελαινόβρωτον δ’ ἧπαρ ἐκθοινήσεται. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 3:9)

Synonyms

  1. furious

  2. huge

  3. hasty

  4. fierce

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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