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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

  • ῥεῖα δέ μιν μαυροῦσι θεοί, μινύθουσι δὲ οἶκον ἀνέρι τῷ, παῦρον δέ τ’ ἐπὶ χρόνον ὄλβοσ ὀπηδεῖ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 38:3)
  • θῆρασ, ἦ πολλάν τε καὶ ἡσύχιον βουσὶν εἰρήναν παρέχοισα πατρῴαισ, τὸν δὲ σύγκοιτον γλυκὺν παῦρον ἐπὶ γλεφάροισ ὕπνον ἀναλίσκοισα ῥέποντα πρὸσ ἀῶ. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 9 7:1)
  • ἔνθ’ ἄρα τούσγε πλυμμυρίσ‐‐καὶ γάρ τ’ ἀναχάζεται ἠπείροιο ἦ θαμὰ δὴ τόδε χεῦμα, καὶ ἂψ ἐπερεύγεται ἀκτὰσ λάβρον ἐποιχόμενον‐‐μυχάτῃ ἐνέωσε τάχιστα ἠιόνι, τρόπιοσ δὲ μάλ’ ὕδασι παῦρον ἔλειπτο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 20:7)
  • ἀλλὰ πόσιν μὲν ὁρῶ παῦρον χρόνον ὀφθαλμοῖσιν οἴκῳ ἐν ἡμετέρῳ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 21)

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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