Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τοῖσ δ’ ἐμπόροισ προεῖπεν, ὃν ἄν τισ λάβῃ χαλκόν, τούτου πάλιν ἀγοράζειν τά τ’ ἐκ τῆσ χώρασ ὤνια καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῶν λειῶν ἀγόμενα· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 84:3)
  • κἀκεῖνο μᾶλλον, ὅταν, ὥσπερ αἱ μυῖαι τῶν λείων τόπων ἐν τοῖσ κατόπτροισ ἀπολισθάνουσι ταῖσ δὲ τραχύτησι προσέχονται καὶ ταῖσ ἀμυχαῖσ, οὕτωσ ἄνθρωποι τῶν ἱλαρῶν καὶ προσηνῶν ἀπορρέοντεσ ἐμπλέκωνται ταῖσ τῶν ἀηδῶν ἀναμνήσεσι· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 152)
  • καὶ τοῦτ’ οὖν τὴν εὐθυμίαν ἐπιταράσσει κἀκεῖνο μᾶλλον, ὅταν, ὥσπερ αἱ μυῖαι τῶν λείων τόπων ἐν τοῖσ κατόπτροισ ἀπολισθάνουσι ταῖσ δὲ τραχύτησι προσέχονται· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 151)
  • τῶν δὲ λείων κατὰ τὰ μεγέθη καὶ τὰσ διαφορὰσ εἶναι κρατίστασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 33 2:3)
  • παχέων καὶ λείων ὑφισταμένων, κἢν ἀπόστημά που γένηται‧ ἢν δ’ ἄνευ τούτων λυθῇ, ὑποστροφὴ πάλιν ἔσται τῆσ ἀῤῬωστίησ, ἢ ἰσχίων ἢ σκελέων ἄλγημα ξυμβήσεται, καὶ πτύσεται παχέα, ἢν μέλλῃ ὑγιὴσ ἔσεσθαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 1.7)

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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