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περιφερής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιφερής περιφερές

Structure: περιφερη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: perife/romai

Sense

  1. moving round, surrounding
  2. surrounded by
  3. round, circular, spherical, globular, rounded

Examples

  • ὅτι ἡ συκοφαντία περιφέρει σοφὸν καὶ ἀπόλλυσι τὴν καρδίαν εὐτονίασ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 7:7)
  • ὁπόσα ἄν τισ ὑμῶν πονηρὰ ἐργάσηται παρὰ τὸν βίον, καθ’ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ἀφανῆ στίγματα ἐπὶ τῆσ ψυχῆσ περιφέρει. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 24:6)
  • "περιφέρει δὲ ὁ παῖσ ἐπὶ τὰ δεξιὰ καὶ τὰ λαιά· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 3612)
  • περιφέρει δέ τίσ με καὶ μνήμη ἄρτι τῶνδε λεγόντων· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 15:4)
  • ἡ θάλασσα ὑμᾶσ ἥδε, μεμνημένουσ τῆσ ἐν αὐτῇ ποτὲ ἀρχῆσ καὶ δυνάμεωσ, ἀδικεῖν ἐπαίρει, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦδε ἐσ συμφορὰσ περιφέρει. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 7:6)
  • τούτῳ πνεῦμα διὰ τέλεοσ, ὥσπερ ἀνακαλεομένῳ, ἀραιὸν μέγα‧ σπλὴν ἐπήρθη περιφερεῖ κυρτώματι, ἱδρῶτεσ ψυχροὶ διὰ τέλεοσ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 228)

Synonyms

  1. moving round

  2. surrounded by

  3. round

Similar forms

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

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