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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

  • ἐξῆν δὲ πάλιν ἀνδρὶ χρηστῷ, τῶν εὐτέκνων τινὰ καὶ σωφρόνων θαυμάσαντι γυναικῶν ἑτέρῳ γεγαμημένην, πεῖσαι τὸν ἄνδρα συνελθεῖν, ὥσπερ ἐν χώρᾳ, καλλικάρπῳ φυτεύοντα καὶ ποιούμενον παῖδασ ἀγαθούσ, ἀγαθῶν ὁμαίμουσ καὶ συγγενεῖσ ἐσομένουσ. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 15 7:2)
  • ἅζονται γὰρ ὁμαίμουσ Ζηνὸσ ἵκτορασ ἁγνοῦ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • αἱ δὲ τὰσ νήσουσ ἔχουσαι πέντε μὲν πόλιεσ τὴν Λέσβον νέμονται τὴν γὰρ ἕκτην ἐν τῇ Λέσβῳ οἰκημένην Ἀρίσβαν ἠνδραπόδισαν Μηθυμναῖοι ἐόντασ ὁμαίμουσ, ἐν Τενέδῳ δὲ μία οἴκηται πόλισ, καὶ ἐν τῇσι Ἑκατὸν νήσοισι καλεομένῃσι ἄλλη μία. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 151 3:1)

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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