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λιμναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιμναῖος λιμναῖη λιμναῖον

Structure: λιμναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: li/mnh

Sense

  1. of or from the marsh or mere, water

Examples

  • Λιμναῖοι γὰρ καὶ Πτολεμαῖοι καὶ Λεοννάτοι, καὶ ὅσοι τὸ τεῖχοσ ὑπερβάντεσ ἢ ῥήξαντεσ ἔστησαν πρὸ αὐτοῦ, τεῖχοσ ἀρετῆσ ἦσαν, εὐνοίᾳ καὶ φιλίᾳ τοῦ βασιλέωσ τὰ σώματα καὶ τὰ πρόσωπα καὶ τὰσ ψυχὰσ προβαλλόμενοι. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 13 23:2)
  • Λιμναῖοι γὰρ καὶ Πτολεμαῖοι καὶ Λεοννάτοι καὶ ὅσοι τὸ τεῖχοσ ὑπερκαταβάντεσ ἢ ῥήξαντεσ ἔστησαν πρὸ αὐτοῦ τεῖχοσ ἀρετῆσ ἦσαν, εὐνοίᾳ καὶ φιλίᾳ τοῦ βασιλέωσ τὰ σώματα κατὰ πρόσωπον καὶ τὰσ ψυχὰσ προβαλλόμενοι. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 12 11:3)
  • καὶ οὗτοσ μὲν ἔχει πολυειδεῖσ ἰχθῦσ, οἱ δὲ λιμναῖοι ἑνὸσ εἴδουσ εἰσί· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 14 13:6)

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

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