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σκνιπός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκνιπός σκνιπή σκνιπόν

Structure: σκνιπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. dim-sighted.

Examples

  • ἐμέμνηντο γὰρ ἔτι τῶν ἐν τῇ παροικίᾳ αὐτῶν, πῶσ ἀντὶ μὲν γενέσεωσ ζῴων ἐξήγαγεν ἡ γῆ σκνῖπα, ἀντὶ δὲ ἐνύδρων ἐξηρεύξατο ὁ ποταμὸσ πλῆθοσ βατράχων. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 19:10)

Synonyms

  1. dim-sighted

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

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