Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λαχνόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαχνόομαι

Structure: λαχνό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from la/xnos

Sense

  1. to grow downy

Examples

  • τῇ τριτάτῃ δὲ γένειον ἀεξομένων ἔτι γυίων λαχνοῦται χροιῆσ ἄνθοσ ἀμειβομένησ, τῇ δὲ τετάρτῃ πᾶσ τισ ἐν ἑβδομάδων μέγ’ ἄριστοσ ἰσχύν, ἥν τ’ ἄνδρεσ σήματ’ ἔχουσ’ ἀρετῆσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 221)
  • Ἐξεφλέγην, ὅτε Θεῦδισ ἐλάμπετο παισὶν ἐν ἄλλοισ, οἱο͂σ ἐπαντέλλων ἀστράσιν ἠέλιοσ, τοὔνεκ’ ἔτι φλέγομαι καὶ νῦν, ὅτε νυκτὶ λαχνοῦται· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1781)

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

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