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πτόρθος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτόρθος

Sense

  1. a young branch, shoot, sucker, sapling
  2. a sprouting, budding

Examples

  • ἑώσ μὲν οὖν γῆσ ὄρθ’ ἔκειθ’ ὁρίσματα πύργοι τ’ ἄθραυστοι Τρωικῆσ ἦσαν χθονὸσ Ἕκτωρ τ’ ἀδελφὸσ οὑμὸσ εὐτύχει δορί, καλῶσ παρ’ ἀνδρὶ Θρῃκὶ πατρῴῳ ξένῳ τροφαῖσιν ὥσ τισ πτόρθοσ ηὐξόμην, τάλασ· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:5)
  • εἰσ ἄγαλμα τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἥρακλεσ, ποῦ σοι πτόρθοσ μέγασ, ἥ τε Νέμειοσ χλαῖνα, καὶ ἡ τόξων ἔμπλεοσ ἰοδόκη; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1031)
  • πτόρθοσ δ’ ἐπὶ δένδρῳ ῥιζωθεὶσ δένδροιο τομῇ, καὶ καρπὸν ἀμείψασ, νέρθε μὲν ἀχρὰσ ἔτ’ ἐστίν, ὕπερθε δ’ ἄρ’ εὔπνοοσ ὄχνη. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 52)

Synonyms

  1. a young branch

Related

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

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