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περιστεφής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιστεφής περιστεφές

Structure: περιστεφη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ste/fw

Sense

  1. wreathed, crowned, with a crown
  2. twining, encircling

Examples

  • αὐτὴ δ’ εἰσφέρει μὲν ἠλακάτην καὶ τὴν ἄτρακτον, ἐρίῳ δὲ τὴν θύραν περιστέφει, τοῦ ἀνδρόσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 31 1:5)
  • αὐτὴ δ’ εἰσφέρει μὲν ἠλακάτην καὶ τὴν ἄτρακτον, ἐρίῳ δὲ τὴν θύραν περιστέφει τοῦ ἀνδρόσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 314)
  • οἱοίσιν νεφέεσσι περιστέφει οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν Ζεύσ, ἐτάραξε δὲ πόντον, ἐπισπέρχουσι δ’ ἀέλλαι παντοίων ἀνέμων. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 30:4)

Synonyms

  1. wreathed

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

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