Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • στήμονι δ’ ἐν παύρῳ πολλὴν κρόκα μηρύσασθαι· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 61:2)
  • ὁ γοῦν Σιμωνίδησ ἀνθρώπων φησὶν ὀλίγον μὲν κάρτοσ, ἄπρακτοι δὲ μεληδόνεσ, αἰῶνι δὲ παύρῳ πόνοσ ἀμφὶ πόνῳ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 11 2:2)
  • Ἰσθμοῖ τά τ’ ἐν Νεμέᾳ παύρῳ ἔπει θήσω φανέρ’ ἀθρό’, ἀλαθήσ τέ μοι ἔξορκοσ ἐπέσσεται ἑξηκοντάκι δὴ ἀμφοτέρωθεν ἁδύγλωσσοσ βοὰ κάρυκοσ ἐσλοῦ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 13 27:1)

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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