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παῦρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παῦρος παῦρον

Structure: παυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pau/w

Sense

  1. little, small, short
  2. few, fewer, few times, seldom

Declension

First/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

  • παῦρα δὲ Θαύμαντοσ θυγάτηρ πόδασ ὠκέα Ἶρισ ἀγγελίην πωλεῖται ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 74:4)
  • μῆτερ ἐμή, τί με ταῦτα δεδίσκεαι, ἠύτε τέκνον νήπιον, ὃσ μάλα παῦρα μετὰ φρεσὶν αἴσυλα οἶδε, ταρβαλέον, καὶ μητρὸσ ὑπαιδείδοικεν ἐνιπάσ; (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 17:2)
  • παῦρα μὲν οὖν ὀνίνησι, τὸ δ’ ἄκριτον ἠπεροπεύει νύκτα δι’ ὀρφναίην φῦλα θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 58:4)
  • ἐν Τροίᾳ δέ μοι πολλοὶ μὲν ἐχθροί, παῦρα δ’ ὠφελήσιμα. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:17)
  • καὶ μὴν ὁρᾷσ γε παῦρα τῶν ἐμῶν κακῶν. (Sophocles, episode 3:20)
  • χὤπωσ μὲν ἐν πολλοῖσι παῦρά σοι λέγω οὐκ οἶδα τοιοῦδ’ ἀνδρὸσ ἔργα καὶ κράτη· (Sophocles, episode 6:4)

Synonyms

  1. little

Related

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

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