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πήλινος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πήλινος πήλινη πήλινον

Structure: πηλιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: phlo/s

Sense

  1. of clay, clay figures

Examples

  • καὶ διὰ τοῦτο φθείρεται ὁ πήλινοσ ἀνδριὰσ εἰσ πηλὸν καὶ ἡ σφαῖρα εἰσ χαλκὸν καὶ ὁ Καλλίασ εἰσ σάρκα καὶ ὀστᾶ, ἔτι δὲ ὁ κύκλοσ εἰσ τὰ τμήματα· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 148:2)
  • ὡσ νῦν γε ἐλελήθεισ σαυτὸν τοῖσ ὑπὸ τῶν κοροπλάθων εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν πλαττομένοισ ἐοικώσ, κεχρωσμένοσ μὲν τῇ μίλτῳ καὶ τῷ κυανῷ, τὸ δ’ ἔνδοθεν πήλινόσ τε καὶ εὔθρυπτοσ ὤν. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 22:5)

Synonyms

  1. of clay

Related

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

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