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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

  • "ἀνάκλασισ δή που τὸ περὶ τὴν ἶρίν ἐστι τῆσ ὄψεωσ πάθοσ, ὅταν ἡσυχῆ νοτερῷ λείῳ δὲ καὶ μέτριον πάχοσ ἔχοντι προσπεσοῦσα νέφει τοῦ ἡλίου ψαύσῃ κατ’ ἀνάκλασιν, καὶ τὴν περὶ ἐκεῖνον αὐγὴν ὁρῶσα καὶ τὸ φῶσ δόξαν ἡμῖν ἐνεργάσηται τοῦ φαντάσματοσ ὡσ ἐν τῷ νέφει ὄντοσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 20 2:4)
  • αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Ἑρμῆσ χαρμόφρων εἰρύσατο πίονα ἔργα λείῳ ἐπὶ πλαταμῶνι καὶ ἔσχισε δώδεκα μοίρασ κληροπαλεῖσ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 13:9)
  • ἀπὸ δ’ εἵματ’ ἐπήτριμα νηήσαντο λείῳ ἐπὶ πλαταμῶνι, τὸν οὐκ ἐπέβαλλε θάλασσα κύμασι, χειμερίη δὲ πάλαι ἀποέκλυσεν ἅλμη. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 7:30)
  • φέρεσθαι μὲν γὰρ τὴν ὄψιν τεταμένην ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸν χαλκόν, ἐντυχοῦσαν δὲ πυκνῷ καὶ λείῳ πληχθεῖσαν ὑποστρέφειν αὐτὴν ἐφ’ ἑαυτήν, ὅμοιόν τι πάσχουσαν τῇ ἐκτάσει τῆσ χειρὸσ καὶ τῇ ἐπὶ τὸν ὦμον ἀντεπιστροφῇ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 3:1)
  • ἄριστον ἐσ λείωσιν ἀρτηρίησ καὶ ἄμυλοσ ξὺν τοῖσι δευθείσ · ξὺν γὰρ τῷ λείῳ καὶ τὸ παγερὸν ἴσχει. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 86)
  • λειω ̣ (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 1:1)

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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