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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

  • καὶ ἀνὴρ Ἰσραὴλ εἶδεν ὅτι στενῶσ αὐτῷ μὴ προσάγειν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐκρύβη ὁ λαὸσ ἐν τοῖσ σπηλαίοισ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ μάνδραισ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ πέτραισ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ βόθροισ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ λάκκοισ, (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 13:5)
  • γενόμενον γὰρ ἐτῶν τριῶν που καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ στενῶσ διακείμενον κατὰ κλέοσ τῶν Σωκρατικῶν εἰσ Ἀθήνασ ἀπᾶραι σὺν Θεομέδοντι τῷ ἰατρῷ, τρεφόμενον ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. h'. EUDOCOS 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. narrow

  2. the straits

  3. scanty

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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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