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ὀλοφώιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλοφώιος ὀλοφώιον

Structure: ὀλοφωι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From OL, the Root of o)/llumi: the term. -fw/ios has not been explained.

Sense

  1. destructive, deadly, pernicious, in pernicious

Examples

  • ὀξὺ δὲ πανδαμάτωρ λοξῷ ἴδεν οἱο͂ν ἔρεξαν ὄμματι νηλειὴσ ὀλοφώιον ἔργον Ἐρινύσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 8:36)
  • οὐ μὲν γάρ κε τοσόνδε κατ’ Ἀπίδα κνώδαλον εὑρ́οισ ἱμείρων ἰδέειν, ἐπεὶ οὐ μάλα τηλίκα βόσκει, ἀλλ’ ἄρκτουσ τε σύασ τε λύκων τ’ ὀλοφώιον ἔρνοσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 78)

Synonyms

  1. destructive

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

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