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στρεβλός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στρεβλός στρεβλή στρεβλόν

Structure: στρεβλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: stre/fw

Sense

  1. twisted, crooked, knit, wrinkled, cunning

Examples

  • εἰ οὖν γίνονται ἔκ τε φαλακρῶν φαλακροὶ καὶ ἐκ γλαυκῶν γλαυκοὶ καὶ ἐκ διεστραμμένων στρεβλοὶ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ, καὶ περὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ μορφῆσ ὁ αὐτὸσ λόγοσ, τί κωλύει καὶ ἐκ μακροκεφάλου μακροκέφαλον γίνεσθαι; (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xiv.8)
  • ἢν μαστιγοῖ δέ τισ ἢ στρεβλοῖ, τούτων οὐδὲν ἀνιαρὸν ἡγήσῃ. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 9:3)

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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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