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νηφάλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νηφάλιος νηφάλιᾱ νηφάλιον

Structure: νηφαλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nh/fw

Sense

  1. unmixed with wine, wineless
  2. sober

Examples

  • πῶσ οὖν ἔμελλεν ὁ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον φιλοπότησ νηφάλιοσ εἶναι καὶ καθ’ ἕνα καὶ δύο κυάθουσ πίνειν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 35 4:5)
  • "τέσσαρα δ’, εἰσ ἕνα τριῶν ὕδατοσ ἐπιχεομένων, οὗτόσ ἐστιν ἐπίτριτοσ λόγοσ, ἀρχόντων τινῶν ἐν πρυτανείῳ νοῦν ἐχόντων ἢ διαλεκτικῶν τὰσ ὀφρῦσ ἀνεσπακότων, ὅταν τὰσ μεταπτώσεισ τῶν λόγων ἀνασκοπῶσι, νηφάλιοσ καὶ ἀδρανὴσ κρᾶσισ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 1:6)

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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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