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ὑπόγυιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόγυιος ὑπόγυιη ὑπόγυιον

Structure: ὑπογυι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gui=on

Sense

  1. under one's hand, nigh at hand
  2. just out of hand, fresh, new, a very short time
  3. sudden, off hand, on the spur of the moment
  4. in the first burst

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν εἰ δεῖται μὲν ἀναθρέψεωσ, οὐδὲν δ’ ἡ πρὸσ τὸ κενούμενον ἀκολουθία βοηθεῖν αὐτοῖσ δύναται διά τε τὰσ ἔμπροσθεν εἰρημένασ ἀπορίασ καὶ διὰ τὴν ὑπόγυιον ἰσχνότητα, καθάπερ δείξω, ζητητέον ἡμῖν ἐστιν ἑτέραν αἰτίαν θρέψεωσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 665)
  • αὐτὸ γὰρ ἂν τοῦτο καὶ πάνδεινον εἰή, εἰ Θηβαῖοι μὲν εἰσ ἔχθραν αὐτοῖσ ἐλθόντεσ δίκην ἠδυνήθησαν λαβεῖν ὑπόγυιον, ἡμεῖσ δ’ ὄντεσ οἵπερ ἐσμὲν ταυτὸν τοῦτ’ οὐχὶ ποιήσομεν ἐκ πολλοῦ προοφειλόμενον αὐτοῖσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 17:18)

Synonyms

  1. under one's hand

  2. sudden

Related

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

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