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ὑπερφυής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερφυής ὑπερφυές

Structure: ὑπερφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fu/omai

Sense

  1. overgrown, enormous
  2. monstrous, marvellous, extraordinary, extraordinary, great, extraordinarily great
  3. over-much, marvellously, strangely, exceedingly

Examples

  • ψηφισαμένησ δὲ τῆσ συγκλήτου μόνῳ Μαρκέλλῳ θρίαμβον, εἰσήλαυνε τῇ μὲν ἄλλῃ λαμπρότητι καὶ πλούτῳ καὶ λαφύροισ καὶ σώμασιν ὑπερφυέσιν αἰχμαλώτων ἐν ὀλίγοισ θαυμαστόσ, ἥδιστον δὲ πάντων θέαμα καὶ καινότατον ἐπιδεικνύμενοσ αὑτὸν κομίζοντα τῷ θεῷ τὴν τοῦ βαρβάρου πανοπλίαν. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 8 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. monstrous

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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