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ὕφαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὕφαλος ὕφαλον

Structure: ὑφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls

Sense

  1. under the sea, of the deep, the lower waters

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ χρυσαῖ μὲν αἱ ἄγκυραι ἐνίοτε, ὁ χηνίσκοσ δὲ μολυβδοῦσ, καὶ τὰ μὲν ὕφαλα κατάγραφα, τὰ δὲ ἔξαλα τῆσ νεὼσ ἄμορφα. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 47:3)
  • ἥτισ μὲν πόλισ πρὸσ τὰ πνεύματα κεῖται τὰ θερμά ‐‐ταῦτα δ’ ἐστὶ μεταξὺ τῆσ τε χειμερινῆσ ἀνατολῆσ τοῦ ἡλίου καὶ τῶν δυσμέων τῶν χειμερινῶν ‐‐καὶ αὐτῇ ταῦτα τὰ πνεύματά ἐστι σύννομα, τῶν δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν ἄρκτων πνευμάτων σκέπη, ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ πόλει ἐστὶ τά τε ὕδατα πολλὰ καὶ ὕφαλα, καὶ ἀνάγκη εἶναι μετέωρα, τοῦ μὲν θέρεοσ θερμά, τοῦ δὲ χειμῶνοσ ψυχρά‧ τούσ τε ἀνθρώπουσ τὰσ κεφαλὰσ ὑγρὰσ ἔχειν καὶ φλεγματώδεασ, τάσ τε κοιλίασ αὐτῶν πυκνὰ ἐκταράσσεσθαι ἀπὸ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τοῦ φλέγματοσ ἐπικαταρρέοντοσ‧ τά τε εἴδεα ἐπὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ αὐτῶν ἀτονώτερα εἶναι‧ ἐσθίειν δ’ οὐκ ἀγαθοὺσ εἶναι οὐδὲ πίνειν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , iii.2)
  • αὐτοὶ μὲν γὰρ ἔμπρωρρα τὰ σκάφη ποιοῦντεσ ἐξάλουσ ἐλάμβανον τὰσ πληγάσ, τοῖσ δὲ πολεμίοισ ὕφαλα τὰ τραύματα διδόντεσ ἀβοηθήτουσ ἐσκεύαζον τὰσ πληγάσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 16, chapter 4 12:1)

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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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