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λαγαρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαγαρός λαγαρή λαγαρόν

Structure: λαγαρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. slack, hollow, sunken, in the least defensible
  2. slack, loose, pliant

Examples

  • λαγαροὶ δὲ οἱ ἐν μέσῳ, οἱο͂ν αἶψα δ’ ἄρ’ Αἰνείαν φίλον υἱὸν Ἀγχίσαο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 32 3:4)
  • "διαλύεται μὲν οὖν ταχέωσ, διότι πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων ὄγκων εἰσενεχθέντων μετὰ μικρὸν χρόνον λαγαροὶ γινόμεθα καθ’ ὑπερβολήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 163)
  • καὶ κεφάλουσ μὲν λέγεσθαι διὰ τὸ βαρυτέραν τὴν κεφαλὴν ἔχειν, σφηνέασ δὲ ὅτι λαγαροὶ καὶ τετράγωνοι, τὰ δὲ τῶν δακτυλέων τὸ πλάτοσ ἔχει ἔλασσον τῶν δυεῖν δακτύλων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 77 4:2)
  • ἐν δὲ Ῥώμῃ πληγέντεσ αὖθισ καὶ ἀναξυσθέντεσ οὐ τοσοῦτον ἔσχον γλαφυρίασ ὅσον ἀπώλεσαν συμμετρίασ καὶ τοῦ καλοῦ, διάκενοι καὶ λαγαροὶ φανέντεσ. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 15 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. slack

Related

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

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