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πρόρριζος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόρριζος πρόρριζον

Structure: προρριζ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: r(i/za

Sense

  1. by the roots, root and branch, utterly

Examples

  • πολλοῖσι γὰρ δὴ ὑποδέξασ ὄλβον ὁ θεὸσ προρρίζουσ ἀνέτρεψε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 32 10:3)
  • Ἀριστοκρίτου καὶ Ἆγισ ὁρ́κουσ μὲν θεῶν ὑπερέβησαν, οὓσ ὤμοσαν Ἀθηναίοισ ἐν κοινῷ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, κατὰ σφᾶσ δὲ αὐτοὶ καὶ οὐ μετὰ Σπαρτιατῶν τοῦ κοινοῦ τὸ βούλευμα ἐσ τοὺσ συμμάχουσ ἐξήνεγκαν ἐκκόψαι προρρίζουσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 10:1)
  • Μαθεῖν δ’ ἔστιν ἐκ τούτων, ὅσην τὸ θεῖον ἐπιστροφὴν ἔχει τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων, καὶ πῶσ μὲν ἀγαπᾷ τοὺσ ἀγαθούσ, μισεῖ δὲ τοὺσ πονηροὺσ καὶ προρρίζουσ ἀπόλλυσιν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 392:1)

Synonyms

  1. by the roots

Related

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

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