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τραυλός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τραυλός τραυλή τραυλόν

Structure: τραυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from the sound.

Sense

  1. lisping
  2. twittering

Examples

  • ἐκ δὲ τῶν καμνόντων ἀπέθνῃσκον μάλιστα μειράκια, νέοι, ἀκμάζοντεσ, λεῖοι, ὑπολευκόχρωτεσ, ἰθύτριχεσ, μελανότριχεσ, μελανόφθαλμοι, οἱ εἰκῇ καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ Ῥᾴθυμον βεβιωκότεσ, ἰσχνόφωνοι, τρηχύφωνοι, τραυλοί, ὀργίλοι. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 160)
  • Τραυλοὶ ὑπὸ διαῤῬοίησ μάλιστα ἁλίσκονται μακρῆσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 60.32)

Synonyms

  1. twittering

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

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