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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

  • τότε δή ῥα διόγνητοσ Ιὄλαοσ σμερδαλέον ἵπποισιν ἐκέκλετο· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 32:2)
  • σκληρὸν δ’ ἐβρόντησε καὶ ὄβριμον, ἀμφὶ δὲ γαῖα σμερδαλέον κονάβησε καὶ οὐρανὸσ εὐρὺσ ὕπερθε πόντοσ τ’ Ὠκεανοῦ τε ῥοαὶ καὶ Τάρταρα γαίησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 78:8)
  • ὦ Κεβριόνη καὶ Πορφυρίων ὡσ σμερδαλέον τὸ πόλισμα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme2)
  • ἣ δ’ ὑπὸ χειρὸσ σμερδαλέον κονάβησε· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 5:8)
  • ἣ δ’ ὑπὸ χειρὸσ σμερδαλέον κονάβησε· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 46:8)

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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