Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • κατέκειτ’ ἂν ὀσφραινόμενοσ, εἴπερ δειλὸσ ἦν· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene27)
  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ οὐ πολέμων οὐδὲ πραγμάτων φροντιεῖσ, ἀλλὰ σκοπούμενοσ διέσῃ τί ἂν κεχαρισμένον ἢ σιτίον ἢ ποτὸν εὑρ́οισ, ἢ τί ἂν ἰδὼν ἢ ἀκούσασ τερφθείησ ἢ τίνων ὀσφραινόμενοσ ἢ ἁπτόμενοσ, τίσι δὲ παιδικοῖσ ὁμιλῶν μάλιστ’ ἂν εὐφρανθείησ, καὶ πῶσ ἂν μαλακώτατα καθεύδοισ, καὶ πῶσ ἂν ἀπονώτατα τούτων πάντων τυγχάνοισ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 25:1)
  • κάμηλον ἵπποσ φοβέεται, καὶ οὐκ ἀνέχεται οὔτε τὴν ἰδέην αὐτοῦ ὁρέων οὔτε τὴν ὀδμὴν ὀσφραινόμενοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 80 5:2)

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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