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μελάγχιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελάγχιμος μελάγχιμον

Structure: μελαγχιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Formed from me/las, with termin. -ximos, as du/sximos from dus-

Sense

  1. black, dark

Examples

  • οὐκ εἶσι γαίασ ἐσ μελάγχιμον πέδον· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 4:9)
  • πυρᾶσ δ’ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ οἶν μελάγχιμον πόκῳ σφάγιον ἐσεῖδον αἷμά τ’ οὐ πάλαι χυθὲν ξανθῆσ τε χαίτησ βοστρύχουσ κεκαρμένουσ. (Euripides, episode 1:10)
  • ἀλλὰ μὲν ᾧ τὰ πρῶτα μελάγχιμον ἰὸν ἐνείη ζωόντων, ὅσα γαῖα φερέσβιοσ ἔμπνοα βόσκει, οὐδ’ ὁπόσον πήχυιον ἐσ Αἴδα γίγνεται οἶμοσ, οὐδ’ εἰ Παιήων, εἴ μοι θέμισ ἀμφαδὸν εἰπεῖν, φαρμάσσοι, ὅτε μοῦνον ἐνιχρίμψῃσιν ὀδοῦσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 24:16)

Synonyms

  1. black

Related

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

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