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νιφάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νιφάς νιφάδος

Structure: νιφαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ni/fw

Sense

  1. a snowflake, snowflakes, a snowstorm, snow
  2. a shower, the sleet

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ δαιμόνων πρόδρομοσ ἦλθον ἀρ‐ χαῖα βρέτη, θεοῖσι πίσυνοσ, νιφάδοσ ὅτ’ ὀλοᾶσ νειφομένασ βρόμοσ ἐν πύλαισ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτα ῥιπτέσθω μὲν αἰθαλοῦσσα φλόξ, λευκοπτέρῳ δὲ νιφάδι καὶ βροντήμασι χθονίοισ κυκάτω πάντα καὶ ταρασσέτω. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 2:25)
  • πρόσθε γὰρ νώνυμνοσ, ἇσ Οἰνόμαοσ ἆρχε, βρέχετο πολλᾷ νιφάδι. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 10 14:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἁμέρᾳ γὰρ ἐν μιᾷ τραχεῖα νιφὰσ πολέμοιο τεσσάρων ἀνδρῶν ἐρήμωσεν μάκαιραν ἑστίαν· (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 4 5:3)
  • ἤ που τὸν ἐφεσπέρου πέτρασ νιφάδοσ πελῶσ’ Οἰάτιδοσ εἰσ νόμον, πώλοισιν ἢ ῥιμφαρμάτοισ φεύγοντεσ ἁμίλλαισ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὅτ’ ἂν ἐκ νεφέων πτῆται νιφὰσ ἠὲ χάλαζα ψυχρὴ ὑπὸ ῥιπῆσ αἰθρηγενέοσ Βορέαο, ὣσ κραιπνῶσ μεμαυῖα διέπτατο ὠκέα Ἶρισ, ἀγχοῦ δ’ ἱσταμένη προσέφη κλυτὸν ἐννοσίγαιον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 15 16:2)

Synonyms

  1. a snowflake

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

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