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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

  • ὡσ ἀνὴρ ὅστισ τρόποισι συντακῇ, θυραῖοσ ὢν μυρίων κρείσσων ὁμαίμων ἀνδρὶ κεκτῆσθαι φίλοσ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 2:31)
  • Δίκη δ’ ὁμαίμων κάρτα νιν προστέλλεται εἴργειν τεκούσῃ μητρὶ πολέμιον δόρυ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode23)
  • ἐν ἁγνῷ δ’ ἑσμὸσ ὡσ πελειάδων ἵζεσθε κίρκων τῶν ὁμοπτέρων φόβῳ, ἐχθρῶν ὁμαίμων καὶ μιαινόντων γένοσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 2:16)
  • ἀμφοτέρουσ ὁμαίμων τάδ’ ἐπισκοπεῖ Ζεὺσ ἑτερορρεπήσ, νέμων εἰκότωσ ἄδικα μὲν κακοῖσ, ὅσια δ’ ἐννόμοισ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 31)
  • διόπερ ἡ μὲν Ἀλθαία γενομένη περιαλγὴσ ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν ὁμαίμων ἀναιρέσει ἀρὰσ ἔθετο, καθ’ ἃσ ἠξίωσεν ἀποθανεῖν Μελέαγρον· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 34 5:4)

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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