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πελώριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πελώριος πελώριον

Structure: πελωρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from pe/lwr

Sense

  1. gigantic, huge, the mighty things, mighty ones

Examples

  • εἰσιοῦσι δὲ αὐτοῖσ εἰσ τὸ τοῖσ λῃσταῖσ εἰσ τιμωρίαν ἀποδεδειγμένον θέατρον κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν κάπηλίσ τισ γυνὴ κατ’ ἔλεον ἔδωκεν οὗ μετὰ χεῖρασ εἶχεν ἐσθίουσα κιτρίου, καὶ λαβόντεσ ἔφαγον καὶ μετ’ οὐ πολὺ παραβληθέντεσ πελωρίοισ καὶ ἀγριωτάτοισ ζῴοισ ταῖσ ἀσπίσι δηχθέντεσ οὐδὲν ἔπαθον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 28 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. gigantic

Related

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

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