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νοσερός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νοσερός νοσερή νοσερόν

Structure: νοσερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = noshro/s, Eur.

Sense

  1. of sickness

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ τῇ ἀρχῇ τῶν μετὰ τὸν Κάμιλλον ὑπάτων νόσοσ εἰσ Ῥώμην κατέσκηψε λοιμικὴ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀπό τε ἀνομβρίασ καὶ αὐχμῶν λαβοῦσα ἰσχυρῶν, ὑφ’ ὧν κακωθεῖσα ἥ τε δενδρῖτισ καὶ ἡ σιτοφόροσ ὀλίγουσ μὲν ἀνθρώποισ καρποὺσ ἐξήνεγκε καὶ νοσερούσ, ὀλίγην δὲ καὶ πονηρὰν βοσκήμασι νομήν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 13, chapter 4 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. of sickness

Related

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

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