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θηριώδης

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θηριώδης θηριώδες

Structure: θηριωδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. full of wild beasts, infested by them
  2. beast-like, wild, savage, brutal, the animal nature

Examples

  • τῶν δ’ ἀγρίων τὰ θηριωδέστατα, κροκόδειλον καὶ τὸν ποτάμιον ἵππον. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 501)
  • ταῦτα εἶπε καὶ αὐτίκα ἄγγελον ἔπεμπε ἐπὶ τῶν βουκόλων τῶν Ἀστυάγεοσ τὸν ἠπίστατο νομάσ τε ἐπιτηδεοτάτασ νέμοντα καὶ ὄρεα θηριωδέστατα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 110 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. full of wild beasts

  2. beast-like

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

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