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στεγανός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στεγανός στεγανή στεγανόν

Structure: στεγαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ste/gw

Sense

  1. covering so as to keep out water, water-tight, waterproof
  2. covering, enclosing, confining
  3. closely covered, covered, roofed
  4. leakiness
  5. confinedly, through a tube

Examples

  • θρυμματίδεσ δ’ ἐπὶ ταύταισ εὐπέταλοι χλωραί θ’ ἁδυφάρυγγεσ πύρνων τε στεγαναὶ φύσται μέγαθοσ κακκάβου γλυκυόξεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 28 2:7)
  • τύρσεισ γὰρ καὶ παρὰ Τυρρηνοῖσ αἱ ἐντείχιοι καὶ στεγαναὶ οἰκήσεισ ὀνομάζονται ὥσπερ παρ’ Ἕλλησιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 26 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. closely covered

Related

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

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