Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑπηνέμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπηνέμιος

Structure: ὑπηνεμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/nemos

Sense

  1. lifted or wafted by the wind
  2. full of wind, wind-, vain, idle, empty, braggart

Examples

  • πάντα ἐκεῖνα ὑπηνέμια ὀνείρατα, φασί, καὶ ἐπαίνων σκιαί· (Lucian, Harmonides 11:2)
  • Ἄλεξισ δὲ ἡμίτομά που ᾠῶν λέγει, ᾠὰ δὲ οὐ μόνον ἀνεμιαῖα ἐκάλουν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπηνέμια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 50 1:4)
  • "ᾠὸν μέγιστον τέτοκεν, ὡσ ἀλεκτρυών, καὶ πάλιν πολλαὶ τῶν ἀλεκτρυόνων βίᾳ ὑπηνέμια τίκτουσιν ᾠὰ πολλάκισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 14 5:45)
  • τίκτει δὲ καὶ ὑπηνέμια, ὡσ ἡ ἀλεκτορίσ, οὐ πλείω δὲ τῶν δύο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 56 1:6)
  • ἔτι τοίνυν, εἰ μὲν οὐδέν ἐστι καταληπτὸν ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ γνωστόν, εἰκότωσ ὁ θεὸσ ἀπεκώλυσεν αὐτὸν ὑπηνέμια καὶ ψευδῆ καὶ ἀβέβαια γεννᾶν. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 1, section 31)

Synonyms

  1. full of wind

Related

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

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