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ὀσφραίνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀσφραίνομαι

Structure: ὀσφραίν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: o)/zw

Sense

  1. to catch scent of, smell, scent, track

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • προσπίπτει κοτὲ τὸ στόμιον τῆσ ὑστέρησ μοῦνον μέσφι τοῦ αὐχένοσ, ἀλλ’ αὖθισ εἴσω δύεται, ἢν ὀσφραίνηται ἡ ὑστέρη θυμιήσι κακώδεϊ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 300)
  • ἕλκει δὲ αὐτέην καὶ ἡ γυνὴ, ἢν ὀσφραίνηται θυμιητῶν εὐωδέων. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 301)
  • ἐὰν γὰρ ὀσφραίνηται νεωστὶ κεκινημένησ, δυσωπεῖται· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 18:3)

Synonyms

  1. to catch scent of

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

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