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λιτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιτός

Structure: λιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: v. li/s2

Sense

  1. smooth, even, plane

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

  • ἀρκεῖ μοι λιτὴ μὲν ὑπὸ πλευροῖσι χαμευνάσ,4 ἐγγύθι πὰρ ὁ προμάλου δέμνιον ἐνδαπίησ, καὶ λύγοσ, ἀρχαῖον Καρῶν στέφοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 143)
  • "γ’ ἕνεκα πάσαισ γυναιξὶν ἂν ἐραστήν, ὅτι τῆσ γυναικὸσ ὁ πλοῦτόσ ἐστι φυλακτέοσ τῷ νεανίσκῳ, μὴ συμμίξαντεσ αὐτὸν ὄγκῳ καὶ βάρει τοσούτῳ λάθωμεν ὥσπερ ἐν χαλκῷ κασσίτερον ἀφανίσαντεσ μέγα γὰρ ἂν ἐλαφρᾷ καὶ λιτῇ γυναικὶ μειρακίου συνελθὸντοσ εἰσ ταὐτὸν ἡ κρᾶσισ οἴνου δίκην ἐπικρατήσῃ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 72)
  • "πάτριοσ μὲν γὰρ ἦν αὐτοῖσ, ὡσ φησι Ποσειδώνιοσ, καρτερία καὶ λιτὴ δίαιτα καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν ὑπὸ τὴν κτῆσιν ἀφελὴσ καὶ ἀπερίεργοσ χρῆσισ, ἔτι δὲ εὐσέβεια μὲν θαυμαστὴ περὶ τὸ δαιμόνιον, δικαιοσύνη δὲ καὶ πολλὴ τοῦ πλημμελεῖν εὐλάβεια πρὸσ πάντασ ἀνθρώπουσ μετὰ τῆσ κατὰ γεωργίαν ἀσκήσεωσ, τοῦτο δ’ ἔστιν ἐκ τῶν πατρίων θυσιῶν ὧν ἐπιτελοῦμεν ἰδεῖν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 10426)
  • ἡ δὲ ἑτέρα λέξισ ἡ λιτὴ καὶ ἀφελὴσ καὶ δοκοῦσα κατασκευήν τε καὶ ἰσχὺν τὴν πρὸσ ἰδιώτην ἔχειν λόγον καὶ ὁμοιότητα πολλοὺσ μὲν ἔσχε καὶ ἀγαθοὺσ ἄνδρασ προστάτασ συγγραφεῖσ τε καὶ φιλοσόφουσ καὶ ῥήτορασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 21)
  • κατεποντώθη, ἣν Ηἐλίῳ φαέθοντι ἐν μακάρων νήσοισι λιτὴ φύει εἰάρι γαίη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 481)

Synonyms

  1. smooth

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