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τρυφερός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρυφερός τρυφερή τρυφερόν

Structure: τρυφερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: trufh/

Sense

  1. delicate, dainty
  2. effeminate, luxurious, voluptuous, effeminacy, to more effeminate habits, voluptuously, softly

Examples

  • Ἀριστοφάνησ, ὦ οὗτοσ, ἐν Λημνίαισ τὸ τακερὸν ἔταξεν ἐπὶ τοῦ τρυφεροῦ λέγων οὕτωσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 22)
  • διατείνει δ’ αὐτῆσ τὰ ἕλη μέχρι Δάφνησ χωρίου τά τε ἄλλα τρυφεροῦ καὶ πηγὰσ ἔχοντοσ, αἳ τρέφουσαι τὸν μικρὸν καλούμενον Ιὄρδανον ὑπὸ τὸν τῆσ χρυσῆσ βοὸσ νεὼ προπέμπουσι τῷ μεγάλῳ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. delicate

Related

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

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