Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σμερδαλέος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σμερδαλέος σμερδαλέη σμερδαλέον

Structure: σμερδαλε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. terrible to look on, fearful, aweful, direful
  2. terrible to hear, terribly

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἡ δ’ εἴσω πελάνουσ μείλικτρά τε νηφαλίῃσιν καῖεν ἐπ’ εὐχωλῇσι παρέστιοσ, ὄφρα χόλοιο σμερδαλέασ παύσειεν Ἐρινύασ, ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτὸσ εὐμειδήσ τε πέλοιτο καὶ ἤπιοσ ἀμφοτέροισιν, εἴτ’ οὖν ὀθνείῳ μεμιασμένοι αἵματι χεῖρασ, εἴτε καὶ ἐμφύλῳ προσκηδέεσ ἀντιόωσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 12:14)

Synonyms

  1. terrible to look on

  2. terrible to hear

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

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