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ὀλέθριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλέθριος ὀλέθριον

Structure: ὀλεθρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. destructive, deadly, of destruction, of death, fatally
  2. bringing ruin
  3. ruined, lost, undone, rascally, worthless

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτόν. τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. διότι ἐξήνεγκασ σὺ ἄνδρα ὀλέθριον ἐκ τῆσ χειρόσ σου, καὶ ἔσται ἡ ψυχή σου ἀντὶ τῆσ ψυχῆσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁ λαόσ σου ἀντὶ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 21:42)
  • πόνοι γὰρ καὶ πόνων ἀνάγκαι κρείσσονεσ κυκλοῦνται κοινὸν δ’ ἐξ ἰδίασ ἀνοίασ κακὸν τᾷ Σιμουντίδι γᾷ ὀλέθριον ἔμολε συμφορά τ’ ἀπ’ ἄλλων. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, antistrophe1)
  • ὀλέθριον ὀλέθριον κακόν. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric3)
  • πᾷ στῶ, πᾷ κάμψω, πᾷ βῶ, ναῦσ ὅπωσ ποντίοισ πείσμασιν, λινόκροκον φᾶροσ στέλλων, ἐπὶ τάνδε συθεὶσ τέκνων ἐμῶν φύλαξ ὀλέθριον κοίταν; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. destructive

  2. bringing ruin

Related

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

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