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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

  • ὅτε, εἰ καὶ παντάπασιν ἠπειρώτησ καὶ ἀπειρόπλουσ τισ εἰή, πάντωσ ἂν ἐθελήσειε καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐμβῆναι καὶ περιπλεῦσαι καὶ πολὺ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ ἀποσπάσαι, καὶ μάλιστα εἰ βλέποι τὴν μὲν αὔραν κούφωσ ἐπουριάζουσαν τὴν ὀθόνην, τὴν δὲ ναῦν προσηνῶσ τε καὶ λείωσ ἐπ’ ἄκρων ἠρέμα διολισθάνουσαν τῶν κυμάτων. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 12:2)
  • ὥστε ταῖσ τῆσ διηγήσεωσ ἀρεταῖσ κατακεκοσμήσθω, λείωσ τε καὶ ὁμαλῶσ προϊοῦσα καὶ αὐτὴ ὁμοίωσ, ὥστε μὴ προὔχειν μηδὲ κοιλαίνεσθαι· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 553)
  • καὶ ὀκλάζει καὶ ἀγανακτεῖ φεύγοντα ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, τοῖσ δὲ συγγενέσι καὶ οἰκείοισ ὁμοπαθεῖ κεραννύμενα καὶ προσίεται τὴν κοινωνίαν λείωσ καὶ μετ’ εὐμενείασ, πῶσ οἱο͂́ν τε φιλίαν ἤθεσι διαφόροισ, ἐγγενέσθαι καὶ πάθεσιν ἀνομοίοισ καὶ βίοισ ἑτέρασ προαιρέσεισ ἔχουσιν; (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 8 2:1)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἤδη ἐπέλειπε τὰ ἐπιτήδεια, προελθόντεσ καὶ τὴν ναῦν πεπηγυῖαν ἀνασπάσαντεσ καὶ πετάσαντεσ τὴν ὀθόνην ἐσυρόμεθα ὥσπερ πλέοντεσ λείωσ καὶ προσηνῶσ ἐπὶ τοῦ πάγου διολισθάνοντεσ. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 2:7)
  • τοὺσ δ’ ἠπίωσ καὶ λείωσ ὁμιλοῦντασ ὀργαῖσ κάλλιστα μὲν ἀκούσματα κάλλιστα δὲ θεάματα ποιούμενοσ, ἄρχομαι καταφρονεῖν τῶν λεγόντων· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 92)

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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