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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

  • ἀλλ’ ἐκ γὰρ ἄλγουσ ἄλγοσ αὖ σὲ δέρκομαι κάρα ξυρῆκεσ καὶ πέπλουσ μελαγχίμουσ ἔχουσαν, οἴμοι τῶν ἐμῶν ἐγὼ κακῶν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 3:9)

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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