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νιφετός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νιφετός νιφετοῦ

Structure: νιφετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ni/fw

Sense

  1. falling snow, a snowstorm

Declension

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

  • τότε δὲ καὶ χειμῶνοσ ὡρ́ᾳ πάγοι ποταμῶν καὶ νιφετοῖσ ἀποκεκρυμμένοι δρυμοί καὶ πεδία χειμάρροισ ἐπιλελιμνασμένα, καὶ πῇ μὲν ἀτέκμαρτοι βάθει χιόνοσ ἀτραποί, πῇ δὲ δι’ ἑλῶν καὶ ῥευμάτων παρατρεπομένων ἀσάφεια πολλὴ τῆσ πορείασ παντάπασιν ἐδόκουν ἀνεπιχείρητα Καίσαρι τὰ τῶν ἀφισταμένων ποιεῖν. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 25 3:1)
  • καὶ ταῖσ μὲν ἀγαθαῖσ ὁμοδοξοῦντεσ παισὶν Ἑλλήνων ἀποφαίνονται τὴν ὑπὲρ ὠκεανὸν δίαιταν ἀποκεῖσθαι καὶ χῶρον οὔτε ὄμβροισ οὔτε νιφετοῖσ οὔτε καύμασι βαρυνόμενον, ἀλλ’ ὃν ἐξ ὠκεανοῦ πραὺ̈σ ἀεὶ ζέφυροσ ἐπιπνέων ἀναψύχει· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 201:1)

Synonyms

  1. falling snow

Related

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

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