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ὕφαλος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: hyphalos

Principal Part: ὕφαλος ὕφαλον

Structure: ὑφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ἅλς

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

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ ὣς ὕφαλοι κολυμβηταὶ τὰς σχοίνους αὐτοῖς ὑπέτεμνον. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 21 6:2)
  • πέτραι τε γὰρ ὕφαλοι περὶ πᾶσαν καὶ χοιράδες ἀνεστήκασι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 10:2)
  • τὸ δέ μοι δοκεῖν εἰ ἐπιρρήξαις αὐτῷ ὕδωρ ἕτερον, ἀντάνεισιν εἰς τὸ ἄνω, τὸ δὲ δύεται ὥσπερ ὕφαλοι νεύοντες εἰς μυχὸν ἐκ τοῦ μετεώρου: (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:12)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν τὰ κοῖλα καὶ τὰς χαράδρας ἐπλήρωσεν ὑπελθὼν ὑποβρύχιος, ὥσπερ οἱ ὕφαλοι κολυμβηταὶ, τρέψας εἰς τὸ κάτω τὰ πρῶτα τῆς ἀναβάσεως: (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 33:4)
  • πρὸς δὲ τῇ στενότητι τοῦ μεταξὺ πόρου καὶ πέτραι εἰσὶν αἱ μὲν ὕφαλοι αἱ δὲ καὶ ἐξέχουσαι, τραχύνουσαι πᾶσαν ὡρ´αν τὸ προσπῖπτον ἐκ τοῦ πελάγους κλυδώνιον. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 12:9)

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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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