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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

  • πρῶτον μὲν, εἰ βούλει, τοὺσ τῶν πολέμων ἀγωνιστὰσ ἐνθυμηθῶμεν, ποτέρωσ ἂν μᾶλλον αὐτοί τε σώζοιντο καὶ τοὺσ ἀντιτεταγμένουσ τρέποιντο καὶ χειροῖντο, πότερον βεβαίοισ καὶ ὑγιέσι καὶ στεγανοῖσ τοῖσ ὅπλοισ χρώμενοι, ἢ τὸ μὲν ξίφοσ καττιτέρου φέροντεσ, φλοιῷ δὲ τὸν θώρακα πεποιημένον, τὸ δ’ αὖ δόρυ σύκινον, καὶ κράνοσ δὴ καὶ ἀσπίδα ὡσ ἀπὸ τούτων εἰκάσαι; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:5)

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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