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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

  • ὦ πατρὸσ ὅμαιμε θεῖε, τὸν κατὰ χθονὸσ θανόντ’ ἀκούειν τάδε δόκει, ποτωμένην ψυχὴν ὑπὲρ σοῦ, καὶ λέγειν ἃ ἐγὼ λέγω, ταὔτ’ ἔσ τε δάκρυα καὶ γόουσ καὶ συμφοράσ. (Euripides, episode, iambic 19:13)
  • ὅμαιμε, δεινά μ’ Οἰδίπουσ ὁ σὸσ πόσισ δρᾶσαι δικαιοῖ δυοῖν ἀποκρίνασ κακοῖν ἢ γῆσ ἀπῶσαι πατρίδοσ ἢ κτεῖναι λαβών. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 4:3)

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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