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ὄζος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄζος ὄζου

Structure: ὀζ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bough, branch, twig
  2. (figuratively) offshoot, scion

Declension

Second declension

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

  • ὦ Διονύσια, αὗται μὲν ὄζουσ’ ἀμβροσίασ καὶ νέκταροσ καὶ μὴ ’πιτηρεῖν σιτί’ ἡμερῶν τριῶν, κἀν τῷ στόματι λέγουσι, βαῖν’ ὅπῃ θέλεισ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 6:26)
  • σάνδαλα δ’ αὐτίκα ῥιψὶν ἐπὶ ψαμάθοισ ἁλίῃσιν, ἄφραστ’ ἠδ’ ἀνόητα διέπλεκε, θαυματὰ ἔργα, συμμίσγων μυρίκασ καὶ μυρσινοειδέασ ὄζουσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 8:7)
  • εἰ γάρ τισ ὄζουσ ὀξυτόμῳ πελέκει ἐξερείψειεν μεγάλασ δρυόσ, αἰσχύνοι δέ οἱ θαητὸν εἶδοσ· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 81:2)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, γίνεται κενὸν καὶ ληρῶδεσ, οἱο͂ν Λικύμνιοσ ποιεῖ ἐν τῇ τέχνῃ, ἐπούρωσιν ὀνομάζων καὶ ἀποπλάνησιν καὶ ὄζουσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 13 5:3)
  • ναὶ μὰ τόδε σκῆπτρον, τὸ μὲν οὔ ποτε φύλλα καὶ ὄζουσ φύσει, ἐπεὶ δὴ πρῶτα τομὴν ἐν ὄρεσσι λέλοιπεν, οὐδ’ ἀναθηλήσει· (Homer, Iliad, Book 1 26:8)

Synonyms

  1. bough

  2. offshoot

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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