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μέλεος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέλεος μέλεᾱ μέλεον

Structure: μελε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. idle, useless, in vain
  2. unhappy, miserable, unhappy

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἐπί μοι μελέῳ βάροσ ἄπλετον· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode, anapests11)
  • ὦ Κηναία κρηπὶσ βωμῶν, ἱερῶν οἱάν οἱών ἐπί μοι μελέῳ χάριν ἠνύσω· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode, anapests20)
  • φοιτᾷ γὰρ ὑπ’ ἀγρίαν ὕλαν ἀνά τ’ ἄντρα καὶ πέτρασ ἰσόταυροσ μέλεοσ μελέῳ ποδὶ χηρεύων, τὰ μεσόμφαλα γᾶσ ἀπονοσφίζων μαντεῖα· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. idle

  2. unhappy

Related

Similar forms

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

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