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μανός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μανός μανή μανόν

Structure: μαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. porous
  2. few, scanty, of things happening at intervals, not often

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

  • ὑγρὰ ῥᾷον ἢ τὰ ξηρὰ προσδέχεται, καὶ πότερον φύσει πυκνὸν ἔχει τὸν σφυγμὸν ἢ μανόν· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 26 3:2)
  • καὶ τοῦ πρώτου πυκνοῦ συγκεῖσθαι, τὴν δὲ σελήνην ἐκ τοῦ δευτέρου, πυκνοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἰδίου ἀέροσ, τὴν δὲ γῆν ἐξ ὕδατοσ καὶ ἀέροσ καὶ τοῦ τρίτου τῶν πυκνῶν ὅλωσ δὲ μήτε τὸ πυκνὸν αὐτὸ καθ’ αὑτὸ μήτε τὸ μανὸν εἶναι ψυχῆσ δεκτικόν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 29 6:1)
  • "ἤδη γὰρ ἀκήκοα λεγόντων τινῶν περὶ τοῦ πυρόσ, ὡσ ἐν χειμῶνι κάεται βέλτιον ὑπὸ ῥώμησ εἰσ αὑτὸ συστελλόμενον τῇ ψυχρότητι καὶ πυκνούμενον, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ αὐχμοῖσ ἐξασθενεῖ καὶ γίγνεται μανὸν καὶ ἄτονον, κἂν ἐν ἡλίῳ κάηται, χεῖρον ἐργάζεται, καὶ τῆσ ὕλησ ἅπτεται μαλακῶσ καὶ καταναλίσκει βράδιον. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 4 3:3)
  • "καὶ μὴν ὡσ κασσίτεροσ μανὸν ὄντα καὶ πολύπορον τὸν χαλκὸν ἐντακεὶσ ἅμα μὲν ἔσφιγξε καὶ κατεπύκνωσεν ἅμα δὲ λαμπρότερον ἀπέδειξε καὶ καθαρώτερον, οὕτωσ οὐδὲν ἀπέχει τὴν μαντικὴν ἀναθυμίασιν οἰκεῖόν τι ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ καὶ συγγενὲσ ἔχουσαν ἀναπληροῦν τὰ μανὰ καὶ συνέχειν ἐναρμόττουσαν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 415)
  • εἰ μὲν γὰρ μένει ὁποῖὸσ γ’ ἐστι φύσει, πῶσ τὸ μέλαν ἐν τῷ μὴ λευκῷ λευκότησ γίγνεται καὶ τὸ μαλθακὸν ἐν τῷ μὴ σκληρῷ σκληρότησ καὶ τὸ μανὸν ἐν τῷ μὴ πυκνῷ πυκνότησ; (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 43 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. porous

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