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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

  • πολλὰσ δὲ δρῦσ ὑψικόμουσ ἐλάτασ τε παχείασ οὔρεοσ ἐν βήσσῃσ πιλνᾷ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ ἐμπίπτων, καὶ πᾶσα βοᾷ τότε νήριτοσ ὕλη. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 59:3)
  • βῆ δ’ αὐτῇ προτέρωσε σὺν ἀσπίδι νήριτα ταύρων ἴχνια μαστεύων· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:21)
  • περί τ’ ἀμφί τε νήριτοσ ὀδμὴ φαρμάκου ὕπνον ἔβαλλε· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 3:18)
  • ἐν δ’ ὄροσ αὐτῇ Νήριτον εἰνοσίφυλλον, ἀριπρεπέσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 1:11)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ στείχοντεσ ὁδὸν κάτα παιπαλόεσσαν ἄστεοσ ἐγγὺσ ἔσαν καὶ ἐπὶ κρήνην ἀφίκοντο τυκτὴν καλλίροον, ὅθεν ὑδρεύοντο πολῖται, τὴν ποίησ’ Ἴθακοσ καὶ Νήριτοσ ἠδὲ Πολύκτωρ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 31:1)
  • 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)

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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