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λεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεῖος λεῖη λεῖον

Structure: λει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. smooth, plain, not embroidered
  2. smooth, level, flat, smooth, free) from
  3. smooth-skinned, beardless
  4. smooth, soft

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

  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ δικανικοῖσ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα πάνυ ἀκριβὴσ καὶ ἀληθινὸσ καὶ τῷ Λυσίου χαρακτῆρι ἔγγιστα μὲν προσεληλυθώσ, ἐν δὲ τῇ συνθέσει τῶν ὀνομάτων τὸ λεῖον ἐκεῖνο καὶ εὐπρεπὲσ ἔχων, ἔλαττον μὲν ἢ ἐν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ λόγοισ, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ ἔχων γε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 182)
  • καὶ πρόσεστι τούτοισ τὸ λεῖον τῆσ ἑρμηνείασ καὶ τὸ ἀφελὲσ τῆσ κατασκευῆσ, ὦν μάλιστα δεῖ τοῖσ ὑπ’ οἰκείων προοιμιαζομένοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 24 1:8)
  • οὐδέποτ’ ἂν θείησ λεῖον τὸν τραχὺν ἐχῖνον. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, dactyls15)
  • οὐ γὰρ ποιήσεισ λεῖον τὸν τραχὺν ἐχῖνον. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, dactyls 1:13)
  • παῖδασ δὲ αὐτῶν τοὺσ ὡραίουσ καὶ κομήτασ, οὓσ Υἁκίνθουσ ἢ Ἀχιλλέασ ἢ Ναρκίσσουσ ὀνομάζουσι, μεταξὺ ὀρέγοντασ σφίσι τὸ ἔκπωμα φαλακροὺσ γίνεσθαι ὑπορρεούσησ τῆσ κόμησ καὶ πώγωνα φύειν ὀξύν, οἱοῖ́ εἰσιν ἐν ταῖσ κωμῳδίαισ οἱ σφηνοπώγωνεσ, καὶ τὸ παρὰ τοῖσ κροτάφοισ πάνυ λάσιον καὶ κάρτα ἐκκεντοῦν, τὸ μεταξὺ δὲ λεῖον καὶ γυμνὸν εἶναι. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 1 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. smooth

  2. smooth

Related

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

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