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σκελετός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκελετός σκελετή σκελετόν

Structure: σκελετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ske/llw

Sense

  1. dried up, withered, a dried body, mummy

Examples

  • φέρτατον ἡρώων, ἡμιθανῆ σκελετόν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3923)
  • πρὸσ γὰρ τῇ Λυγγὶ Ἀνταίου μνῆμα ἱστορεῖ καὶ σκελετὸν πηχῶν ἑξήκοντα, ὃν Σερτώριον γυμνῶσαι καὶ πάλιν ἐπιβαλεῖν γῆν. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 16:10)

Synonyms

  1. dried up

Related

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

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