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παμπάλαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παμπάλαιος παμπάλαιον

Structure: παμπαλαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. very old

Examples

  • εἰσὶ δέ τινεσ οἳ καὶ τοὺσ παμπαλαίουσ καὶ πολὺ πρὸ τῆσ νῦν γενέσεωσ καὶ πρώτουσ θεολογήσαντασ οὕτωσ οἰόνται περὶ τῆσ φύσεωσ ὑπολαβεῖν· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1 61:2)
  • ἀμφότεροι δ’ ἂν φανῶσι μηδὲν μέτριον λέγοντεσ, γελοῖοι ἐσόμεθα ἡγούμενοι ἡμᾶσ μὲν τὶ λέγειν φαύλουσ ὄντασ, παμπαλαίουσ δὲ καὶ πασσόφουσ ἄνδρασ ἀποδεδοκιμακότεσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 238:1)

Synonyms

  1. very old

Related

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

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