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ὅμαιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅμαιμος ὅμαιμον

Structure: ὁμαιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ai(=ma

Sense

  1. of the same blood, related by blood, by one near of kin
  2. a brother or sister

Examples

  • κάρτα δ’ εἴσ’ ὅμαιμοι. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 43)
  • ὦ τοῦδ’ ὅμαιμοι παῖδεσ, ἀλλ’ ὑμεῖσ, ἐπεὶ τὰ σκληρὰ πατρὸσ κλύετε ταῦτ’ ἀρωμένου, μή τοί με πρὸσ θεῶν σφώ γ’, ἐὰν αἱ τοῦδ’ ἀραὶ πατρὸσ τελῶνται καί τισ ὑμῖν ἐσ δόμουσ νόστοσ γένηται, μή μ’ ἀτιμάσητέ γε, ἀλλ’ ἐν τάφοισι θέσθε κἀν κτερίσμασιν. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 3:4)
  • οἱ τρισσοί τοι ταῦτα τὰ δίκτυα θῆκαν ὅμαιμοι, ἀγρότα Πάν, ἄλλησ ἄλλοσ ἀπ’ ἀγρεσίησ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 131)

Synonyms

  1. a brother or sister

Related

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

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