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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

  • γαστρὶ μὲν τὰ σύμφορα τόξον τόδ’ ἐξηύρισκε, τὰσ ὑποπτέρουσ βάλλον πελείασ· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:2)
  • τὴν δὲ ὑμετέραν χώραν κοσμεῖ τῶν ἐπὶ γῆσ τὸ κάλλιστον, οὐ κατὰ τοὺσ ἐν Ἰνδοῖσ μύρμηκασ ὑποπτέρουσ ἄξιον εἰπεῖν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 12:5)

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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