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στενός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στενός στενή στενόν

Structure: στεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ste/nw

Sense

  1. narrow, strait
  2. the straits, a narrow strip
  3. narrow, close, confined, a corner
  4. scanty, little, petty

Examples

  • οἱο͂ν διὰ τί τῶν ἴσων αὐλῶν ὁ στενότεροσ βαρύτερον φθέγγεται· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 13 11:1)
  • Αὐτὸσ δὲ ὁ ναὸσ κατὰ μέσον κείμενοσ, τὸ ἅγιον ἱερόν, δώδεκα βαθμοῖσ ἦν ἀναβατόσ, καὶ τὸ μὲν κατὰ πρόσωπον ὕψοσ τε καὶ εὖροσ ἴσον ἀνὰ πήχεισ ἑκατόν, κατόπιν δὲ τεσσαράκοντα πήχεσι στενότεροσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 236:1)

Synonyms

  1. narrow

  2. the straits

  3. scanty

Related

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

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