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λαιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαιός λαιά̄ λαιόν

Structure: λαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. left (opposite of right)
  2. awkward

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

  • τὸ δ’ ἐν λαιῷ πέσεν ὤμῳ δίου Οἰλῆοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 17:17)
  • ἠιέ δ’ ἄλλοτε μὲν λαιῷ ἐπιειμένοσ ὤμῳ αὐχένοσ ἐξ ὑπάτοιο ποδηνεκέσ, ἄλλοτε δ’ αὖτε εἴλει ἀφασσόμενοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 3:30)
  • καὶ γὰρ δεξιὸν ὄμμα κακούμενον ὄμματι λαιῷ πολλάκι τοὺσ ἰδίουσ ἀντιδίδωσι πόνουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 352 3:2)
  • στρατηγοὶ δ’ ἐφειστήκεσαν τῷ μέσῳ μὲν Αἰμίλιοσ, τῷ δὲ λαιῷ Σερουίλιοσ, Τερέντιοσ δὲ τοῖσ ἐπὶ δεξιά, χιλίουσ ἀμφ’ αὑτὸν ἕκαστοσ ἔχων ἱππέασ ἐπειλεγμένουσ, ἐπικουρεῖν ὅπῃ τι πονοίη. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4 1:7)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν τῶν Ἠλείων ἱππεῖσ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἐπιφανέντεσ τῷ λαιῷ κέρατι τὸ γεγονὸσ περὶ τοὺσ συμμάχουσ ἐλάττωμα διωρθώσαντο· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 84 14:1)
  • ὃν καὶ πρὶν ἐσ φῶσ μητρὸσ ἐκ γονῆσ μολεῖν, ἄγονον Ἀπόλλων Λαί̈ῳ μ’ ἐθέσπισεν φονέα γενέσθαι πατρόσ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 1:11)
  • Πλάτων Λαίῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 785)
  • ζητῶν γὰρ ἑαυτὸν ὡσ οὐκ ὄντα Κορίνθιον ἀλλὰ ξένον, ἀπήντησε τῷ Λαϊῴ, καὶ τοῦτον ἀνελὼν καὶ τὴν μητέρα λαβὼν ἐπὶ τῇ βασιλείᾳ γυναῖκα καὶ δοκῶν εἶναι μακάριοσ πάλιν ἑαυτὸν ἐζήτει. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 144)
  • ζητῶν γὰρ ἑαυτὸν ὡσ οὐκ ὄντα Κορίνθιον ἀλλὰ ξένον, ἀπήντησε τῷ Λαϊῴ, καὶ τοῦτον ἀνελὼν καὶ τὴν μητέρα λαβὼν ἐπὶ τῇ βασιλείᾳ γυναῖκα καὶ δοκῶν εἶναι μακάριοσ πάλιν ἑαυτὸν ἐζήτει. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 14 3:1)
  • "τί οὐκ ἄν τισ προσδοκήσειεν, εἰ καὶ Πρωτογένησ ἔρωτι πολεμήσων πάρεστιν ᾧ καὶ παιδιὰ πᾶσα καὶ σπουδὴ περὶ Ἔρωτα καὶ δι’ Ἔρωτοσ, λήθη μὲν λόγων λήθη δὲ πάτρασ, οὐχ ὡσ τῷ Λαϊῴ πέντε μόνον ἡμερῶν ἀπέχοντι τῆσ πατρίδοσ; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 3 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. left

  2. awkward

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