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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

  • οἴμοι μοι, καί που πολιᾶσ πόντου θινὸσ ἐφήμενοσ ἐγγελᾷ, χερὶ πάλλων τὰν ἐμὰν μελέου τροφάν, τὰν οὐδείσ ποτ’ ἐβάστασεν. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, strophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. idle

  2. unhappy

Related

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

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