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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

  • ἐθέλω δέ σοι καὶ ἄλλο ὅμοιον εἰπεῖν φιλοσοφίασ περὶ γεύματοσ, καὶ μή με νομίσῃσ βλασφημεῖν περὶ αὐτῆσ, ἢν εἴπω ὅτι φαρμάκῳ ὀλεθρίῳ ἐοίκεν, οἱο͂ν κωνείῳ ἢ ἀκονίτῳ ἢ ἄλλῳ τῶν τοιούτων· (Lucian, 127:1)
  • ἐξ οὗ ταχέωσ συνέβη τραπέντασ αὐτοὺσ ὀλεθρίῳ χρήσασθαι φυγῇ, κρημνώδη καὶ δύσβατον ἐχόντων ἐπὶ πολὺ τὴν ἀναχώρησιν τῶν τόπων. (Polybius, Histories, book 2, chapter 68 10:1)

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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