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ὑπόπτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόπτερος ὑπόπτερον

Structure: ὑποπτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptero/n

Sense

  1. winged
  2. swift-flying, soaring, flighty, giddy

Examples

  • ὑπόπτερον γὰρ αὐτὸν ἡ Αθηνᾶ ἔθηκεν. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton and nhrides, chapter 27)
  • διὰ μέσου γὰρ αἰθέροσ τέμνων κέλευθον πόδα τίθημ’ ὑπόπτερον Περσεὺσ πρὸσ Ἄργοσ ναυστολῶν τὸ Γοργόνοσ κάρα κομίζων. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, iambics2)
  • καὶ ἐπεὶ γρὺψ ὑπόπτερον θηρίον ἢ φοῖνιξ ὄρνεον ἐν Ἰνδοῖσ ἀθέατον τοῖσ ἄλλοισ, ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ τοῦτο ἑώρων ἄν, καὶ τὰσ πηγὰσ δὲ τὰσ Νείλου μόνοσ ἂν ἠπιστάμην καὶ ὅσον τῆσ γῆσ ἀοίκητον, καὶ εἴ τινεσ ἀντίποδεσ ἡμῖν οἰκοῦσι τὸ νότιον τῆσ γῇσ ἡμίτομον ἔχοντεσ. (Lucian, 74:5)
  • ἐγὼ δέ σ’ ἄστρων ὡσ βεβηκυῖαν μυχοὺσ ἤγγελλον εἰδὼσ οὐδὲν ὡσ ὑπόπτερον δέμασ φοροίησ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 3:2)
  • μεθίημι νεῖκοσ τὸ σόν, ἴτω δ’ ὑπόπτερον. (Euripides, Helen, episode 3:38)

Synonyms

  1. winged

Related

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

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