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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

  • ἔφη δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ Φάρου ἀπάραντασ οὐ πάνυ βιαίῳ πνεύματι ἑβδομαίουσ ἰδεῖν τὸν Ἀκάμαντα, εἶτα ζεφύρου ἀντιπνεύσαντοσ ἀπενεχθῆναι πλαγίουσ ἄχρι Σιδῶνοσ, ἐκεῖθεν δὲ χειμῶνι μεγάλῳ περιπεσόντασ δεκάτῃ ἐπὶ Χελιδονέασ διὰ τοῦ Αὐλῶνοσ ἐλθεῖν, ἔνθα δὴ παρὰ μικρὸν ὑποβρυχίουσ δῦναι ἅπαντασ. (Lucian, 14:4)
  • ὁ Ἀπαμεὺσ ὁ τὴν τῶν Σύρων βασιλείαν ἁρπάσασ ἐπολεμεῖτο ὑπὸ Σαρπηδόνοσ τοῦ Δημητρίου στρατηγοῦ περὶ Πτολεμαΐδα πόλιν καὶ ὡσ ὁ Σαρπηδὼν λειφθεὶσ ἀνεχώρησεν εἰσ τὴν μεσόγαιαν μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων στρατιωτῶν, οἱ δὲ τοῦ Τρύφωνοσ ὥδευον κατὰ τὸ πλησίαλον νικήσαντεσ τῇ μάχῃ, ἐξαίφνησ πελάγιον κῦμα ἐξαρθὲν μετέωρον εἰσ ὕψοσ ἐξαίσιον ἐπῆλθεν τῇ γῇ καὶ πάντασ αὐτοὺσ ἐπέκλυσεν διέφθειρέν τε ὑποβρυχίουσ, ἰχθύων τε πολὺν σωρὸν ἀναχωροῦν τὸ κῦμα μετὰ τῶν νεκρῶν κατέλιπε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 7 1:1)

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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