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μηνοειδής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηνοειδής μηνοειδές

Structure: μηνοειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mh/nh, ei)=dos

Sense

  1. crescent-shaped, crescent, when partially eclipsed

Examples

  • "ὃν γὰρ ὁ ἥλιοσ περιιὼν κύκλον ἄγει καὶ περιστρέφει περὶ τὴν σελήνην, νῦν μὲν ἐπιπίπτοντα τῷ διορίζοντι τὸ ὁρατὸν αὐτῆσ καὶ τὸ ἀόρατον, νῦν δ’ ἀνιστάμενον πρὸσ ὀρθὰσ, ὥστε τέμνειν ἐκείνου ὑπ’ ἐκείνου τε τέμνεσθαι, καὶ ἄλλαισ κλίσεσι καὶ σχέσεσι τοῦ λαμπροῦ πρὸσ τὸ σκιερὸν ἀμφικύρτουσ καὶ μηνοειδεῖσ ἀποδιδόντα μορφὰσ ἐν αὐτῇ , παντὸσ μᾶλλον ἐπιδείκνυσιν · (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 186)

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

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