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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

  • πολλὴ δὲ καὶ ἡ κατ’ Ἀρκαδίαν μυθολογία, Δάφνησ φυγή, Καλλιστοῦσ θηρίωσισ, Κενταύρων παροινία, Πανὸσ γοναί, Ἀλφειοῦ ἔρωσ καὶ ὕφαλοσ ἀποδημία. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 48:2)
  • τόν τε γὰρ ἔσπλουν στενώτερον ταῖσ ναυσὶν ἐργάζεται παρήκων ὕφαλοσ καὶ ἅμα μὴ ἐκ βυθοῦ ταράσσεσθαι τὸν κλύδωνα ἔρυμα ἕστηκεν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 3:3)
  • ἐκείνην μὲν οὖν αἱ Νύμφαι δέχονται, καὶ νῦν ἐστιν ὕφαλοσ, ὑπελθοῦσα τὴν λίμνην, ὥσ φασι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:12)
  • ἐδόκει γάρ μοι παραπλήσιον εἶναι ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ διὰ παντὸσ τοῦ πελάγουσ ὕφαλοσ διεξελθὼν εἶτ’ ἠναγκαζόμην ἀποδιδόναι λόγον πόσοισ τισὶ τοῖσ πᾶσι ῥοθίοισ ἐνέτυχον καὶ ποίασ τινὸσ τῆσ θαλάττησ παρ’ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ἐπειρώμην καὶ τί τὸ σῶζον ἦν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:7)
  • φέρει δ’ αἰτίαν πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι τῆσ ἔξω θαλάττησ καὶ τῆσ ἐντὸσ τοὔδαφοσ ἕτερόν ἐστιν, ἔπειθ’ ὅτι καὶ νῦν ἔτι ταινία τισ ὕφαλοσ διατέτακεν ἀπὸ τῆσ Εὐρώπησ ἐπὶ τὴν Λιβύην, ὡσ ἂν [μὴ] μιᾶσ οὔσησ πρότερον τῆσ τε ἐντὸσ καὶ τῆσ ἐκτόσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 8:10)

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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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