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ὀρεινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρεινός ὀρεινή ὀρεινόν

Structure: ὀρειν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/ros

Sense

  1. mountainous, hilly
  2. dwelling on the mountains

Examples

  • ἐπιμελοῦ τῶν ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ χλωρῶν καὶ κερεῖσ πόαν, καὶ σύναγε χόρτον ὀρεινόν, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 27:27)
  • ὁ Τίμων οὑτοσὶ σκάπτει πλησίον ὀρεινὸν καὶ ὑπόλιθον γήδιον. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 31:1)
  • "μᾶλλον δ’ ὥσπερ ἀετὸν τινα λέγουσι γνήσιον καὶ ὀρεινόν, ὃν Ὅμηροσ μέλανα καὶ θηρευτήν προσεῖπεν ἄλλα δὲ γένη νόθων ἐστὶν ἰχθῦσ περὶ ἕλη καὶ ὄρνιθασ ἀργοὺσ λαμβανόντων, ἀπορούμενοι δὲ πολλάκισ ἀναφθέγγονταί τι λιμῶδεσ καὶ ὀδυρτικόν· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 4 2:13)
  • πολὺ γὰρ ἀναφύεσθαι καὶ τεθηλέναι δι’ ἔτουσ ἰόν ὀρεινὸν ἐν τοῖσ λειμῶσι, καὶ τὸν τόπον εὐωδίαν ἀεὶ κατέχουσαν ἁρπάζειν τὰσ τῶν θηρίων ἀναπνοάσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 23 3:2)
  • ὥσπερ γε καὶ ὁ "Ὀρέστησ," ὦ Ἑρμόγενεσ, κινδυνεύει ὀρθῶσ ἔχειν, εἴτε τισ τύχη ἔθετο αὐτῷ τὸ ὄνομα εἴτε καὶ ποιητήσ τισ, τὸ θηριῶδεσ τῆσ φύσεωσ καὶ τὸ ἄγριον αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ὀρεινὸν ἐνδεικνύμενοσ τῷ ὀνόματι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 69:6)

Synonyms

  1. mountainous

  2. dwelling on the mountains

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

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