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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

  • ὃσ ἤθη καὶ γλῶσσαν τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ἐκμαθών, ἐπειδὴ τοὺσ γονεῖσ αὐτῷ τελευτῆσαι συνέβη, βασιλεύοντοσ ἐν Τροίᾳ Πριάμου κάθοδον αὑτῷ δοθῆναι διαπράττεται, καὶ συνδιενέγκασ τὸν πρὸσ τοὺσ Ἀχαιοὺσ πόλεμον ἁλισκομένησ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀπέπλει πάλιν εἰσ Σικελίαν σὺν Ἐλύμῳ ποιησάμενοσ τὴν φυγὴν ἐν τρισὶ ναυσὶν, ἃσ Ἀχιλλεὺσ ἔχων ὅτε τὰσ Τρωάδασ ἐληίζετο πόλεισ ἑρ́μασιν ὑφάλοισ περιπεσούσασ ἀπέβαλεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 52 5:1)
  • οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ τὰ ἐν τῷ βυθῷ χρὴ λανθάνειν αὐτόν, ἢ λήσεται περιπεσὼν ὑφάλοισ πέτραισ ἢ ἀδήλοισ ἑρ́μασι· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 70:2)
  • στενόσ τε γὰρ εἴσπλουσ καὶ πέτραισ ὑφάλοισ τὸν ἐπ’ εὐθὺ καμπτόμενοσ δρόμον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 693:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὑφάλοισ χοιράσι καὶ ῥαχίαισ ἐκτετράχυνται καὶ πνοιαῖσ καταιγιζούσαισ τὸ πλέον. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 10:9)

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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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