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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

  • ἀνδρεῖοσ ἐν ἀσεβείαισ συκοφαντεῖ πτωχούσ. ὥσπερ ὑετὸσ λάβροσ καὶ ἀνωφελήσ, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 28:3)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τῶν μάντεων θαρρεῖν παραινούντων πολυαρκεστάτην γὰρ οἰκίζεσθαι πόλιν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ παντοδαπῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐσομένην τροφόν ἔργου κελεύσασ ἔχεσθαι τοὺσ ἐπιμελητάσ αὐτὸσ ὡρ́μησεν εἰσ Ἄμμωνοσ, ὁδὸν μακρὰν καὶ πολλὰ μὲν ἔχουσαν ἐργώδη καὶ ταλαίπωρα, κινδύνουσ δὲ δύο, τὸν μὲν ἀνυδρίασ, δι’ ἣν ἔρημόσ ἐστιν οὐκ ὀλίγων ἡμερῶν, τὸν δέ, εἰ λάβροσ ἐν ἄμμῳ βαθείᾳ καὶ ἀχανεῖ πορευομένοισ ἐπιπέσοι νότοσ, ὥσ που καὶ πάλαι λέγεται περὶ τὸν Καμβύσου στρατὸν, ἀναστήσασ θῖνα μεγάλην καὶ κυματώσασ τὸ πεδίον μυριάδασ ἀνθρώπων πέντε καταχῶσαι καὶ διαφθεῖραι. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 26 6:1)
  • ἦλθ’ ἄνεμοσ Ζέφυροσ μέγασ, αἴθριοσ, ἐκ Διὸσ αἴσησ, λάβροσ ἐπαιγίζων ἐξ αἰθέροσ, ὄφρα τάχιστα νηῦσ ἀνύσειε θέουσα θαλάσσησ ἁλμυρὸν ὕδωρ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 27:17)
  • ἐν πάντα δὲ νόμον εὐθύγλωσσοσ ἀνὴρ προφέρει, παρὰ τυραννίδι, χὠπόταν ὁ λάβροσ στρατόσ, χὤταν πόλιν οἱ σοφοὶ τηρέωντι. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 2 26:5)
  • καὶ αὐτῷ λάβροσ ὁ ποταμὸσ ἐφορμᾷ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 4 10:4)

Synonyms

  1. furious

  2. huge

  3. hasty

  4. fierce

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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