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μαυρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαυρός μαυρός μαυρόν

Structure: μαυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. barely seen, dim, faint, shadowy
  2. dark
  3. sightless, blind
  4. unknown, uncertain, obscure
  5. inconspicuous
  6. weak, feeble

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

  • οὔτε δὲ Κυρηναῖοι, τὸ Λακώνων γένοσ, οὔτε Μαρμαρίδαι, τὸ μέχρι τῆσ διψάδοσ ἐκτεταμένον φῦλον, οὔθ’ αἱ φοβεραὶ καὶ τοῖσ ἀκούουσιν Σύρτεισ Νασαμῶνέσ τε καὶ Μαῦροι καὶ τὸ Νομάδων ἄπειρον πλῆθοσ τὰσ Ῥωμαίων ἀνέκοψαν ἀρετάσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 489:1)
  • οἰκοῦσι δ’ ἐνταῦθα Μαυρούσιοι μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων λεγόμενοι, Μαῦροι δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων καὶ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων, Λιβυκὸν ἔθνοσ μέγα καὶ εὔδαιμον, ἀντίπορθμον τῇ Ἰβηρίᾳ. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. barely seen

  2. dark

  3. sightless

  4. unknown

  5. inconspicuous

  6. weak

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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