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λαῖλαψ

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαῖλαψ λαῖλαπος

Structure: λαιλαπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from la-, lai- intensive

Sense

  1. a tempest, furious storm, hurricane

Declension

Third 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

  • ὁ ἀναληφθεὶσ ἐν λαίλαπι πυρὸσ ἐν ἅρματι ἵππων πυρίνων. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 48:9)
  • Ἠλίασ, ὃσ ἐν λαίλαπι ἐσκεπάσθη, καὶ Ἐλισαιὲ ἐνεπλήσθη πνεύματοσ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐν ἡμέραισ αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐσαλεύθη ὑπὸ ἄρχοντοσ, καὶ οὐ κατεδυνάστευσεν αὐτὸν οὐδείσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 48:12)
  • ἔνθα δὲ λαίλαπι χειμωνοτύπῳ, βροντῇ στεροπῇ τ’ ὀμβροφόροισίν τ’ ἀνέμοισ ἀγρίασ ἁλὸσ ἀντήσαντεσ, ὄλοιντο, πρίν ποτε λέκτρων, ὧν θέμισ εἴργει, σφετεριξάμενοι πατραδέλφειαν τήνδ’ ἀεκόντων ἐπιβῆναι. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, lyric 1:7)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐν θαλάσσῃ λαίλαπι κλονεύμενοι καὶ κύμασιν πολλοῖσι πορφυρῆσ ἁλὸσ θνῄσκουσιν, εὖτ’ ἂν νῆα νήσωνται ζοῇ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 12)
  • καὶ σέ, Κλεηνορίδη, πόθοσ ὤλεσε πατρίδοσ αἰήσ θαρσήσαντα Νότου λαίλαπι χειμερίῃ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2631)

Synonyms

  1. a tempest

Related

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

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