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οὐραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οὐραῖος οὐραῖη οὐραῖον

Structure: οὐραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ou)ra

Sense

  1. of the tail, hindmost, the hind-
  2. the tail, the hinder part, rear

Examples

  • Δωρίων δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰχθύων τὸν ἀλωπεκίαν μίαν ἔχειν φησὶ λοφιὰν πρὸσ τῷ οὐραίῳ, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆσ ῥάχεωσ οὐδαμῶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 43 1:2)
  • τελέωσ δὲ τὰ ὀπίσθια ταπεινότερα τῶν ἐμπροσθίων ἐστίν, ὥστε δοκεῖν συγκαθῆσθαι τῷ οὐραίῳ μέρει τὸ ὕψοσ βοὸσ ἔχοντι, τὰ δὲ ἐμπρόσθια σκέλη τῶν καμηλείων οὐ λείπεται· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 31:3)

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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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