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πέλωρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πέλωρον πέλωρου

Structure: πελωρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = pe/lwr

Sense

  1. a monster, prodigy, portents

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πέλωρον πελώρω πέλωρα
Genitive πελώρου πελώροιν πελώρων
Dative πελώρῳ πελώροιν πελώροις
Accusative πέλωρον πελώρω πέλωρα
Vocative πέλωρον πελώρω πέλωρα

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

  • ἣ δ’ ἔτεκ’ ἄλλο πέλωρον ἀμήχανον, οὐδὲν ἐοικὸσ θνητοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ οὐδ’ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν, σπῆι ἔνι γλαφυρῷ θείην κρατερόφρον’ Ἔχιδναν, ἥμισυ μὲν νύμφην ἑλικώπιδα καλλιπάρῃον, ἥμισυ δ’ αὖτε πέλωρον ὄφιν δεινόν τε μέγαν τε αἰόλον ὠμηστὴν ζαθέησ ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 30:1)
  • τίσ τόδε σέλμα πέλωρον ἐπὶ χθονὸσ εἵσατο; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 44 2:1)
  • οἳ μὲν ἄρ’ ἔνθ’ ἔθελον νῆα σχεῖν ἠδ’ ἀποβάντεσ φράσσασθαι μέγα θαῦμα καὶ ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἰδέσθαι, εἰ μενέει νηὸσ γλαφυρῆσ δαπέδοισι πέλωρον ἢ εἰσ οἶδμ’ ἅλιον πολυί̈χθυον αὖτισ ὀρούσει. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 27:10)
  • ὧσ τότε κεῖνο πέλωρον ἀπειρεσίασ ἐλέλιξεν ῥυμβόνασ ἀζαλέῃσιν ἐπηρεφέασ φολίδεσσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 3:12)

Synonyms

  1. a monster

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

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