Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σφαιροειδής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφαιροειδής σφαιροειδές

Structure: σφαιροειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. ball-like, spherical, a rounded end

Examples

  • Ἐπίκουροσ δ’ ἐνδέχεσθαι μὲν εἶναι σφαιροειδεῖσ τοὺσ κόσμουσ, ἐνδέχεσθαι δὲ καὶ ἑτέροισ σχήμασι κεχρῆσθαι. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 2, 2:1)
  • καὶ ὡσ αἰεὶ τὸν ὁμοῖον ἄγει θεὸσ ὡσ τὸν ὁμοῖον, καὶ γὰρ ἐν τοῖσ αἰγιαλοῖσ αἱ ὅμοιαι ψῆφοι κατὰ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ τόπουσ ὁρῶνται, κατ’ ἄλλο μὲν αἱ σφαιροειδεῖσ κατ’ ἄλλο δ’ αἱ ἐπιμήκεισ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 6:1)
  • οὓσ μὲν γὰρ σφαιροειδεῖσ, καὶ ᾠοειδεῖσ ἄλλουσ, καὶ ἀλλοιοσχήμονασ ἑτέρουσ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 74:3)

Synonyms

  1. ball-like

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

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