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ὀδμή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀδμή ὀδμῆς

Structure: ὀδμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. smell, scent, odour
  2. stench, stink
  3. the sense of smell

Declension

First 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

  • περὶ δὲ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ ταύτησ ἣν ἡ κράμβη ποιεῖ ἱστορεῖ καὶ Θεόφραστοσ φεύγειν φάσκων καὶ ζῶσαν τὴν ἄμπελον τῆσ ῥαφάνου τὴν ὀδμήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 62 2:7)
  • διάφοροσ δὲ γίνεται κατὰ τὴν ὀδμὴν ἡ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ μυρρίνη παρὰ τὰσ ἐν ἄλλαισ χώραισ, ὡσ καὶ Θεόφραστοσ ἱστορεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 18 3:1)
  • Φύλαρχοσ δέ φησιν ἐν Κλείτορι εἶναι κρήνην ἀφ’ ἧσ τοὺσ πιόντασ οὐκ ἀνέχεσθαι τὴν τοῦ οἴνου ὀδμήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 19 2:1)
  • καὶ καθάπερ οἱ κυνηγοὶ τοὺσ σκύλακασ οὐκ ἐῶσιν ἐκτρέπεσθαι καὶ διώκειν πᾶσαν ὀδμήν, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ῥυτῆρσιν ἕλκουσι καὶ ἀνακρούουσι, καθαρὸν αὐτῶν καὶ ἄκρατον φυλάττοντεσ τὸ αἰσθητήριον ἐπὶ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἔργον, ἵν’ εὐτονώτερον ἐμφύηται τοῖσ ἴχνεσι πέλματα θηρείων μελέων μυκτῆρσιν ἐρευνῶν οὕτω δεῖ τὰσ ἐπὶ πᾶν θέαμα καὶ πᾶν ἄκουσμα τοῦ πολυπράγμονοσ ἐκδρομὰσ καὶ περιπλανήσεισ ἀφαιρεῖν καὶ ἀντισπᾶν ἐπὶ τὰ χρήσιμα φυλάττοντασ. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 11 1:3)
  • καὶ διώκειν πᾶσαν ὀδμήν, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ ῥυτῆρσιν ἕλκουσι καὶ ἀνακρούουσι, καθαρὸν αὐτῶν φυλάττοντεσ καὶ ἄκρατον τὸ αἰσθητήριον ἐπὶ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἔργον, ἵν’ εὐτονώτερον ἐμφύηται τοῖσ ἴχνεσι πέλματα θηρείων μελέων μυκτῆρσιν ἐρευνῶν· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 11 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. smell

  2. stench

  3. the sense of smell

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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