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ὄρθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄρθιος ὄρθιᾱ ὄρθιον

Structure: ὀρθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)rqo/s

Sense

  1. straight up, going upwards, steep, uphill, up-hill, by a steep path, from the coast upwards
  2. upright, standing, rampant
  3. high-pitched, loud, shrill, aloud
  4. the orthian strain
  5. formed in column, a line of battle
  6. straight, straightforwardness

Examples

  • ὅτε ἐξεπορευόμην ὄρθιοσ ἐν πόλει, ἐν δὲ πλατείαισ ἐτίθετό μου ὁ δίφροσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 29:7)
  • ἐπίπεδοσ, ἀλλὰ πάνυ προσάντησ καὶ ὄρθιοσ, ὃν παραλαβὼν κατὰ θάτερα εἰσ ὑπερβολὴν ταπεινόν, ἰσόπεδον θάτερον θατέρῳ ἀπέφηνεν, κρηπῖδα μὲν βεβαιοτάτην ἅπαντι τῷ ἔργῳ βαλόμενοσ καὶ θεμελίων θέσει τὴν τῶν ἐπιτιθεμένων ἀσφάλειαν ἐμπεδωσάμενοσ, ὕψεσι δὲ πάνυ ἀποτόμοισ καὶ πρὸσ ἀσφάλειαν συνεχομένοισ τὸ ὅλον κρατυνάμενοσ· (Lucian, (no name) 4:5)
  • "καὶ ὄρθιοσ οἶμοσ ἐσ αὐτάσ· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 14:2)
  • μακρὸσ δὲ καὶ ὄρθιοσ οἶμοσ ἐσ αὐτὴν καὶ τρηχὺσ τὸ πρῶτον· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 35:5)
  • ἡ δ̓ Ἀρετὴ πάνυ πόρρω κατὰ τὸν Ἡσίοδον οἰκεῖ καὶ ἔστιν ὁ οἶμοσ ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν μακρόσ τε καὶ ὄρθιοσ καὶ τρηχύσ, ἱδρῶτα οὐκ ὀλίγον ἔχων τοῖσ ὁδοιπόροισ. (Lucian, 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. straight

Related

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

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