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πρηστήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρηστήρ πρηστῆρος

Structure: πρηστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: prh/qw

Sense

  1. a hurricane

Declension

Third 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

  • ὤλεσε γὰρ πρηστήρ σε κεραύνιοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 174 1:1)
  • οὐ μὲν οὖν στρόβιλοσ ἢ πρηστὴρ ἢ σκηπτὸσ ἐμπεσών σείων καὶ κεραυνὸν ἰθύνων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 37:2)
  • ὁ δ’ ὥσπερ τυφὼσ ἢ πρηστὴρ ἐμπεσὼν ἐλαύνει κατάκρασ αἰγίδι λαμπρᾷ πάντα τὰ πράγματα, οὐδὲν παριεὶσ, τοῖσ μὲν ὅπλα, τοῖσ δὲ λόγουσ προσφέρων, μόνον οὐκ ἐπαναγκάζων ἅπαντασ ἀναστῆναι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 11:3)
  • ὁ δὲ εἰπὼν πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ πείρᾳ τοῦ προφήτησ ἀληθὴσ ὑπάρχειν εὔξεσθαι πῦρ ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ πεσὸν ἀπολέσαι τούσ τε στρατιώτασ καὶ αὐτὸν εὔχεται, καὶ πρηστὴρ κατενεχθεὶσ διαφθείρει τόν τε ταξίαρχον καὶ τοὺσ σὺν αὐτῷ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 9 30:4)

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

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