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ὀξύπεινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξύπεινος ὀξύπεινον

Structure: ὀξυπειν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pei=na

Sense

  1. ravenously hungry

Examples

  • τὸ δὲ ὀξύπεινοσ παρὰ Διφίλῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 27 1:1)
  • τέρπομαι γυμνοὺσ ὁρῶν τοὺσ ὀξυπείνουσ καὶ πρὸ τῶν καιρῶν ἀεὶ πάντ’ εἰδέναι σπεύδοντασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 27 1:2)
  • ὁ δὲ ὀξύπεινοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 27 2:1)
  • Δημόνικοσ δ’ ἐν τῷ Ἀχελῴῳ τὸ πρὸ τοῦ δείπνου κατὰ χειρόσ φησι διὰ τούτων ἐσπουδάκει δ’ ἕκαστοσ ὡσ ἂν ἑστιῶν ἅμα τ’ ὀξύπεινον ἄνδρα καὶ Βοιώτιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 79 2:5)
  • ἄλλωσ δὲ τὸ λάβρον τοῦτο καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ λόγουσ ὀξύπεινον ἀνακρουστέον, ἵνα μὴ δοκῇ καθάπερ ῥεῦμα τῇ γλώττῃ πάλαι προσιστάμενον ἀσμένωσ ὑπὸ τῆσ ἐρωτήσεωσ ἐξερᾶσθαι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 20 3:1)
  • ἀεὶ γὰρ ὀξύπεινόσ ἐστι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 27 1:5)

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

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