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ὑπώπιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπώπιον ὑπώπιου

Structure: ὑπωπι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: w)/y

Sense

  1. the part of the face under the eyes, the face, countenance
  2. a blow in the face, a black eye

Declension

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

  • ὑπώπια καὶ συντρίμματα συναντᾷ κακοῖσ, πληγαὶ δὲ εἰσ ταμιεῖα κοιλίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 20:24)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτα τηροῦ μὴ λάβῃσ ὑπώπια. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode, lyric 2:39)
  • τὰ γὰρ ὑπώπια τοῖσ κυάθοισ περιθλώμενα ἀμαυροῦται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 23 1:6)
  • τοιγαροῦν οὐ λέουσι οὐδὲ ἐλέφαντι μοῦνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ νυκτὶ θοῇ ἀταλάντοσ ὑπώπια. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 379)
  • ὁ δ’ εἰσ τοῦτο βαρυδαιμονίασ ἥκει, ὥστε οὐκ αἰσχύνεται τραύματ’ ὀνομάζων τὰ ὑπώπια καὶ ἐν κλίνῃ περιφερόμενοσ καὶ δεινῶσ προσποιούμενοσ διακεῖσθαι ἕνεκα πόρνησ ἀνθρώπου, ἣν ἔξεστιν αὐτῷ ἀναμφισβητήτωσ ἔχειν ἐμοὶ ἀποδόντι τἀργύριον. (Lysias, Speeches, 13:2)

Synonyms

  1. the part of the face under the eyes

Related

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

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