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λοξός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λοξός λοξή λοξόν

Structure: λοξ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. slanting, crosswise, aslant, the ecliptic
  2. askance, aside, stare capite obstipo
  3. indirect, ambiguous

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

  • Ἀφεστεῶτα μὲν, ὥστε τὰ μετέωρα τῆσ ἕδρησ ψαύειν μὲν, πιέζειν δὲ μή‧ ἄρχεσθαι δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ὑγιέοσ, τελευτᾷν δὲ πρὸσ τὸ ἕλκοσ, ὡσ τὸ μὲν ὑπεὸν ἐξαθέλγηται, ἕτερον δὲ μὴ ἐπιξυλλέγηται‧ ἐπιδεῖν τὰ μὲν ὀρθὰ ἐσ ὀρθὸν, τὰ δὲ λοξὰ λοξῶσ, ἐν σχήματι ἀπόνῳ, ἐν ᾧ μήτε ἀπόσφιγξισ, μήτε ἀπόστασισ ἔσται τισ, ἐξ οὗ, ὅταν μεταλλάσσῃ ἢ ἐσ ἀνάληψιν ἢ ἐσ θέσιν, οὐ μεταλλάξουσιν, ἀλλ’ ὅμοια ταῦτα ἕξούσι, μύεσ, φλέβεσ, νεῦρα, ὀστέα, ᾗ μάλιστα εὔθετα καὶ εὔσχετα‧ ἀναλελάφθαι δὲ, ἢ κέεσθαι ἐν σχήματι ἀπόνῳ τῷ κατὰ φύσιν‧ ὧν δὲ ἂν ἀποστῇ, τἀναντία. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., KAT' IHTREION., 11.3)
  • λύχνοι δ’ ἐπιφέρονται αὐταῖσ ἑπτὰ κατὰ μίαν τῶν πλανητῶν τὸν ἀριθμὸν μεμιμημένοι, ὁρῶσι δὲ εἴσ τε τὴν ἀνατολὴν καὶ τὴν μεσημβρίαν λοξῶσ αὐτῆσ κειμένησ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 182:2)

Synonyms

  1. indirect

Related

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

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