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

  • δίδου μασᾶσθαι Ναξίασ ἀμυγδάλασ οἶνόν τε πίνειν Ναξίων ἀπ’ ἀμπέλων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 39 2:3)
  • Χρύσιπποσ δ’ ὁ φιλόσοφοσ τὸν μαίσωνα ἀπὸ τοῦ μασᾶσθαι οἰέται κεκλῆσθαι, οἱο͂ν τὸν ἀμαθῆ καὶ πρὸσ γαστέρα νενευκότα, ἀγνοῶν ὅτι Μαίσων γέγονεν κωμῳδίασ ὑποκριτὴσ Μεγαρεὺσ τὸ γένοσ, ὃσ καὶ τὸ προσωπεῖον εὑρ͂ε τὸ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ καλούμενον μαίσωνα, ὡσ Ἀριστοφάνησ φησὶν ὁ Βυζάντιοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ Προσώπων, εὑρεῖν αὐτὸν φάσκων καὶ τὸ τοῦ θεράποντοσ πρόσωπον καὶ τὸ τοῦ μαγείρου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 77 2:1)
  • ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἡ ματτύη, ὡσ μὲν ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ Ἀπολλόδωρόσ φησιν ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ τῶν Ἐτυμολογουμένων, ἀπὸ τοῦ μασᾶσθαι, ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ μαστίχη καὶ ἡ μάσταξ, ἡμεῖσ δέ φαμεν ἀπὸ τοῦ μάττειν, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ ἡ μᾶζα αὐτὴ ὠνομάσθη καὶ ἡ παρὰ Κυπρίοισ καλουμένη μαγίσ, καὶ τὸ τρυφᾶν καθ’ ὑπερβολὴν ὑπερμαζᾶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 83 2:3)
  • τοῦ γὰρ μασᾶσθαι κρεῖττον οὐκ ἔστ’ οὐδὲ ἓν ἀγαθὸν Α. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 9 3:4)
  • ἔστω ὦν σιτία μὲν ποικίλα, τὰ πολλὰ σιτώδεα, ὡσ Ῥυμφάνειν μᾶλλον ἢ μασᾶσθαι· κἢν στερεὰ ἐῄ, ὀλισθηρὰ γιγνέσθω. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 154)

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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