Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λαμυρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαμυρός λαμυρή λαμυρόν

Structure: λαμυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lamo/s, laimo/s

Sense

  1. gluttonous, greedy
  2. bold, wanton, impudent

Examples

  • προσβλέψασ δὲ τῷ Μαρίῳ λαμυρόν τι καὶ γεγηθὸσ ἔστη πρῶτον ἐναντίον, εἶτα φωνὴν ἀφῆκε λαμπρὰν καὶ παρεσκίρτησε παρ’ αὑτὸν ὑπὸ γαυρότητοσ. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 38 6:1)
  • "καὶ γὰρ ἡ χρόα καὶ τὰ ὦτα καὶ τῶν ὀμμάτων ἡ λιπαρότησ καὶ τὸ λαμυρὸν ἐοίκε θαυμασίωσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 6:3)
  • "τί γὰρ ἔχθιον ἢ παῖ παῖ καλεῖσθαι παρὰ πότον, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἀγενείῳ μειρακυλλίῳ τινί, ἢ τὴν ἀμίδα φέρειν ὁρᾶν τε κείμενα ἄμητασ ἡμιβρῶτασ ὀρνίθειά τε, ὧν οὐδὲ λειφθέντων θέμισ δούλῳ φαγεῖν, ὥσ φασιν αἱ γυναῖκεσ, ὃ δὲ χολᾶν ποιεῖ, γάστριν καλοῦσι καὶ λάμυρον ὃσ ἂν φάγῃ ἡμῶν τι τούτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:12)

Synonyms

  1. gluttonous

Related

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

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