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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

  • 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 ὡρ́αν 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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