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νήριτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νήριτος νήριτον

Structure: νηριτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = nh/riqmos

Sense

  1. countless, immense

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐν δ’ ὄροσ αὐτῇ Νήριτον εἰνοσίφυλλον, ἀριπρεπέσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 1:11)
  • αὐτὰρ Ὀδυσσεὺσ ἦγε Κεφαλλῆνασ μεγαθύμουσ, οἵ ῥ’ Ἰθάκην εἶχον καὶ Νήριτον εἰνοσίφυλλον καὶ Κροκύλει’ ἐνέμοντο καὶ Αἰγίλιπα τρηχεῖαν, οἵ τε Ζάκυνθον ἔχον ἠδ’ οἳ Σάμον ἀμφενέμοντο, οἵ τ’ ἤπειρον ἔχον ἠδ’ ἀντιπέραι’ ἐνέμοντο· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 60:1)
  • περὶ ταύτησ γάρ φασι λέγειν τὸν Λαέρτην "οἱο͂σ Νήριτον εἷλον ἐυκτίμενον πτολίεθρον, ἀκτὴν ἠπείροιο· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 36:3)
  • τῆσ δὲ Λευκάδοσ ἥ τε Νήριτοσ, ἥν φησιν ἑλεῖν ὁ Λαέρτησ ἦ μὲν Νήριτον εἷλον ἐϋκτίμενον πτολίεθρον, ἀκτὴν ἠπείροιο, Κεφαλλήνεσσιν ἀνάσσων, καὶ ἃσ ἐν καταλόγῳ φησί καὶ Κροκύλει’ ἐνέμοντο καὶ Αἰγίλιπα τρηχεῖαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 11:4)
  • Κορίνθιοι δὲ πεμφθέντεσ ὑπὸ Κυψέλου καὶ Γόργου ταύτην τε κατέσχον τὴν ἀκτὴν καὶ μέχρι τοῦ Ἀμβρακικοῦ κόλπου προῆλθον, καὶ ἥ τε Ἀμβρακία συνῳκίσθη καὶ Ἀνακτόριον, καὶ τῆσ χερρονήσου διορύξαντεσ τὸν ἰσθμὸν ἐποίησαν νῆσον τὴν Λευκάδα, καὶ μετενέγκαντεσ τὴν Νήριτον ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον, ὃσ ἦν ποτὲ μὲν ἰσθμὸσ νῦν δὲ πορθμὸσ γεφύρᾳ ζευκτόσ, μετωνόμασαν Λευκάδα, ἐπώνυμον δοκῶ μοι τοῦ Λευκάτα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 11:5)
  • τοῦτο δὲ Νήριτόν ἐστιν ὄροσ καταειμένον ὕλῃ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 13 40:12)

Synonyms

  1. countless

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

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