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λιγνῡ́ς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιγνῡ́ς λιγνύος

Structure: λιγνυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. thick smoke mixed with flame, murky fire (such as is made by burning resinous substances)
  2. Strabo, Geography 6.2.11
  3. soot

Declension

Third 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

  • ὦ Θρᾷττα θέασαι, καομένων τῶν λαμπάδων ὅσον τὸ χρῆμ’ ἀνέρχεθ’ ὑπὸ τῆσ λιγνύοσ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 3:16)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἀπεῖπε, πολλὰ μὲν τάλασ χθονὶ ῥίπτων ἑαυτόν, πολλὰ δ’ οἰμωγῇ βοῶν, τὸ δυσπάρευνον λέκτρον ἐνδατούμενοσ σοῦ τῆσ ταλαίνησ, καὶ τὸν Οἰνέωσ γάμον οἱο͂ν κατακτήσαιτο λυμαντὴν βίου, τότ’ ἐκ προσέδρου λιγνύοσ διάστροφον ὀφθαλμὸν ἄρασ εἶδέ μ’ ἐν πολλῷ στρατῷ δακρυρροοῦντα, καί με προσβλέψασ καλεῖ· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 5:5)
  • τοῦτο μὲν οὖν εὖ, οὐκέτι δὲ καὶ [τὸ] τοῦ μέλανασ εἶναι καὶ οὐλότριχασ τοὺσ Αἰθίοπασ ἐν ψιλοῖσ τοῖσ ὕδασι τὴν αἰτίαν τιθέναι, μέμφεσθαι δὲ τὸν Θεοδέκτην εἰσ αὐτὸν τὸν ἥλιον ἀναφέροντα τὸ αἴτιον, ὅσ φησιν οὕτωσ "οἷσ ἀγχιτέρμων ἥλιοσ διφρηλατῶν σκοτεινὸν ἄνθοσ ἐξέχρωσε λιγνύοσ εἰσ σώματ’ ἀνδρῶν, "καὶ συνέστρεψεν κόμασ μορφαῖσ ἀναυξήτοισι συντήξασ πυρόσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 48:3)
  • τοιαύτην γὰρ ἔκπληξιν παρίστα τὸ συμβαῖνον τοῖσ βοηθοῦσιν ὥστε μήτε συννοῆσαι μήτε συνιδεῖν δύνασθαι τὸ γινόμενον, ἀλλ’ ἀποσκοτουμένουσ ὑπὸ τῆσ εἰσ αὐτοὺσ φερομένησ λιγνύοσ καὶ τῶν φεψαλύγων, ἔτι δὲ τῆσ τοῦ καπνοῦ πολυπληθίασ, οὐκ ὀλίγουσ ἀπόλλυσθαι καὶ πίπτειν, μὴ δυναμένουσ ἐγγίσαι πρὸσ αὐτὴν τὴν τοῦ πυρὸσ βοήθειαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 48 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. Strabo

  2. soot

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