Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μασάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μασάομαι

Structure: μασά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: ma/ssw

Sense

  1. to chew

Examples

  • ὡσ δ’ ἦν τὸ κρέασ ἥδιον ἀνθρώπου κρεῶν, αὑτοὺσ μὲν οὐκ ἐμασῶντο, τὰ δὲ βοσκήματα θύοντεσ ὤπτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 80 2:6)
  • ζωστήρων γοῦν καὶ ὑποδημάτων τὸ τελευταῖον οὐκ ἀπέσχοντο καὶ τὰ δέρματα τῶν θυρεῶν ἀποδέροντεσ ἐμασῶντο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 221:2)

Synonyms

  1. to chew

Derived

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

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