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ὠκύμορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠκύμορος ὠκύμορον

Structure: ὠκυμορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quickly-dying, dying early
  2. bringing a quick or early death

Examples

  • πρὸσ γὰρ τῷ ἐπιπόνῳ τοῦ ἔργου καὶ θανάσιμον καὶ δύσοιστον εἶναι τὸν ἀέρα φασὶ τὸν ἐν τοῖσ μετάλλοισ διὰ τὴν βαρύτητα τῆσ τῶν βώλων ὀδμῆσ, ὥστε ὠκύμορα εἶναι τὰ σώματα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 62:11)
  • ἔτι γε μὴν τὰ μὲν ἄλλα θνητὰ καὶ ὠκύμορα εἶναι συμβέβηκεν τῶν ἰσχὺν ἐχόντων, ἀθάνατον δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια χρῆμα καὶ ἀίδιον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 11 70:1)

Synonyms

  1. quickly-dying

Related

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

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