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πηλός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πηλός πηλοῦ

Structure: πηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. clay, earth
  2. mud, mire, lutum, coenum

Declension

Second declension

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

  • οὗτοσ ἀπερχόμενοσ χρόνῳ διὰ τὸ εἶναι χαλεπὴν ὁδεύεσθαι τὴν Μεσοποταμίαν, χειμῶνι μὲν ὑπὸ πηλῶν βάθουσ, θέρουσ δ’ ὑπὸ ἀνυδρίασ, ἔτι δὲ καὶ λῃστηρίων ὄντων ἐν αὐτῇ, ἃ διαφυγεῖν οὐκ ἐνῆν μὴ προνοοῦσι τούτου τοῖσ ὁδεύουσιν, εἰσ πόλιν ἀφικνεῖται Κάρραν καὶ γενόμενοσ ἐν τοῖσ προαστείοισ παρθένοισ ἐντυγχάνει πλείοσιν ἐφ’ ὕδωρ βαδιζούσαισ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 317:1)
  • οὐκ ὀλίγοι δὲ καὶ τῶν ἵππων τὰσ ὁπλὰσ ἀπέβαλον διὰ τὴν συνέχειαν τῆσ διὰ τῶν πηλῶν πορείασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 79 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. 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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