Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὅθεν καὶ Λιμναῖον κληθῆναι τὸν Διόνυσον, ὅτι μιχθὲν τὸ γλεῦκοσ τῷ ὕδατι τότε πρῶτον ἐπόθη κεκραμένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 13 2:2)
  • ἔλαθε τὸν Λαῖτον ὅτι καὶ τὰ λιμναῖα φυτά, τύφη καὶ φλέωσ καὶ θρύον, ἀναυξῆ καὶ ἀβλαστῆ μένει, μὴ γενομένων ὄμβρων καθ’ ὡρ́αν τὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλουσ ἀληθέσ, ὅτι πρόσφατόν ἐστι καὶ νέον ὕδωρ τὸ ὑόμενον ἑώλον δὲ καὶ παλαιὸν τὸ λιμναῖον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 2 3:1)
  • τοὺσ χειμεριωτάτουσ μῆνασ τέσσερασ ἐσθίει οὐδέν, ἐὸν δὲ τετράπουν χερσαῖον καὶ λιμναῖον ἐστί. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 68 2:2)
  • τὸ δὲ χωρίον τὸ ἐπονομαζόμενον Λιμναῖον Ὀρθίασ ἱερόν ἐστιν Ἀρτέμιδοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 16 13:1)
  • συνεκβάλλεσθαι γὰρ τὸ λιμναῖον ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνέμων. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 18:10)
  • σῆψισ γὰρ ὕδατοσ τὸ λιμναῖόν ἐστι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 56 2:2)
  • οὔτε γὰρ φοίνιξ, ὡσ ἕτερα δένδρα, λιμναῖόν ἐστι καὶ φίλυδρον φυτόν, οὔτε Κορινθίοισ· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 123)

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

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