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ὀχθηρός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: ochthēros

Principal Part: ὀχθηρός ὀχθηρή ὀχθηρόν

Structure: ὀχθηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ὄχθη

Sense

  1. hilly

Examples

  • Ὀχθηρὸν τὸν χῶρον ἔχω καὶ ἔρημον, ὁδῖτα: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2561)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πολὺ προελθόντες ἀπὸ τοῦ χάρακος εἰς χωρίον ἦλθον ὀχθηρὸν καὶ στενόπορον καὶ χαλεπὸν ἵππῳ διεξελθεῖν, ὅτι μὴ βάδην ἀνιόντι, διὰ τὴν τραχύτητα τῶν ὄχθων, σύνθημα δόντες ἀλλήλοις στίφος ἐποίουν ὡς ἅμα χωρήσοντες ἐπ αὐτὸν ἀθρόοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 26 3:2)
  • ἔμελλον ὅπερ εἰκὸς οἱ ὁπλῖται κράνεσι καὶ θώραξι καὶ θυρεοῖς βαρεῖς πρὸς ὀχθηρὰ χωρία καὶ μακρὰς ἀτραποὺς πορευόμενοι καὶ οὐδὲ ταύτας λεωφόρους, ἀλλ αἰγότριβας δι ὕλης τε καὶ κρημνῶν τάξιν τε οὐδεμίαν φυλάξειν, καὶ πρὶν ἐπιφανῆναί σφισι τοὺς πολεμίους ἐξασθενήσειν τὰ σώματα δίψει καὶ κόπῳ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 11 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. hilly

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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