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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

  • εὐλογεῖτε, δρόσοι καὶ νιφετοὶ τὸν Κύριον. ὑμνεῖτε καὶ ὑπερυψοῦτε αὐτὸν εἰσ τοὺσ αἰῶνασ]. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 3:67)
  • τὴν δ’ ὑπὲρ ταῦτα τὰ μέρη χώραν ἐν ᾗ καὶ ὄμβροι καὶ νιφετοί, παραπλησίωσ ἔφη γεωργεῖσθαι τῇ ἄλλῃ τῇ ἔξω τῆσ Ἰνδικῆσ χώρᾳ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 38:3)

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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