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ὑποβρύχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποβρύχιος ὑποβρύχιη ὑποβρύχιον

Structure: ὑποβρυχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. under water

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

  • ^ τῶν δὲ ὑποβρυχίων τὰ σελάχια πολλὰ καὶ ὅσα ὀστράκινα τὸ δέρμα καὶ τεμάχη Ποντικὰ τῶν ἐκ σαργάνησ καὶ κωπαΐδεσ καὶ ὄρνισ σύντροφοσ καὶ ἀλεκτρυὼν ἤδη ἀπῳδὸσ καὶ ἰχθὺσ ἦν παράσιτοσ· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 6:4)
  • οἱ σεισμοὶ δὲ κοσκινηδὸν καὶ ἡ χιὼν σωρηδὸν καὶ ἡ χάλαζα πετρηδόν, ἵνα σοι φορτικῶσ διαλέγωμαι, ὑετοί τε ῥαγδαῖοι καὶ βίαιοι, ποταμὸσ ἑκάστη σταγών ὥστε τηλικαύτη ἐν ἀκαρεῖ χρόνου ναυαγία ἐπὶ τοῦ Δευκαλίωνοσ ἐγένετο, ὡσ ὑποβρυχίων ἁπάντων καταδεδυκότων μόγισ ἕν τι κιβώτιον περισωθῆναι προσοκεῖλαν τῷ Λυκωρεῖ ζώπυρόν τι τοῦ ἀνθρωπίνου σπέρματοσ διαφυλάττον εἰσ ἐπιγονὴν κακίασ μείζονοσ. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. under water

Related

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

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