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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

  • τοῦτο δὲ κτήνεα ἐσίτευον ἐξευρίσκοντεσ τιμῆσ τὰ κάλλιστα, ἔτρεφόν τε ὄρνιθασ χερσαίουσ καὶ λιμναίουσ ἔν τε οἰκήμασι καὶ λάκκοισι, ἐσ ὑποδοχὰσ τοῦ στρατοῦ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 119 3:2)
  • οἱ μὲν δὴ ἰχθῦσ οἱ ἐν τῇ Κηφισίδι οὐδέν τι διάφορον ἐσ ἄλλουσ ἰχθῦσ τοὺσ λιμναίουσ ἔχουσιν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 3:2)

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

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