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ὑψήγορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑψήγορος ὑψήγορον

Structure: ὑψηγορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)goreu/w

Sense

  1. talking big, grandiloquent, vaunting

Examples

  • τοιαῦτα μέντοι τῆσ ἄγαν ὑψηγόρου γλώσσησ, Προμηθεῦ, τἀπίχειρα γίγνεται. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests 1:13)
  • ἀλλ’ ἦλθεν αὐτῷ Ζηνὸσ ἄγρυπνον βέλοσ, καταιβάτησ κεραυνὸσ ἐκπνέων φλόγα, ὃσ αὐτὸν ἐξέπληξε τῶν ὑψηγόρων κομπασμάτων. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests 3:11)

Synonyms

  1. talking big

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

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