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μυσαρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυσαρός μυσαρή μυσαρόν

Structure: μυσαρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mu/sos

Sense

  1. foul, dirty, loathsome, abominable, an abomination
  2. defiled, polluted

Examples

  • εἰ καὶ ὑπὸ χθονὶ κεῖται, ὅμωσ ἔτι καὶ κατὰ πίσσαν τοῦ μιαρογκώσσου χεύατε Παρθενίου, οὕνεκα Πιερίδεσσιν ἐνήμεσε μυρία κεῖνα φλέγματα καὶ μυσαρῶν ἀπλυσίην ἐλέγων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3771)
  • εἰσ γὰρ ποταμὸν οὔτ’ οὐροῦσιν οὔτε νίπτονται Πέρσαι, οὐδὲ λούονται, οὐδὲ νεκρὸν ἐμβάλλουσιν οὐδ’ ἄλλα τῶν δοκούντων εἶναι μυσαρῶν· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 3 32:1)

Synonyms

  1. foul

Related

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

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