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ὠμηστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠμηστής ὠμηστοῦ

Structure: ὠμηστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: w)mo/s, e)sqi/w

Sense

  1. eating raw flesh, savageness, brutality

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὠμηστής ὠμηστᾱ́ ὠμησταί
Genitive ὠμηστοῦ ὠμησταῖν ὠμηστῶν
Dative ὠμηστῇ ὠμησταῖν ὠμησταῖς
Accusative ὠμηστήν ὠμηστᾱ́ ὠμηστᾱ́ς
Vocative ὠμηστά ὠμηστᾱ́ ὠμησταί

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

  • αὐτὸν δ’ ἂν πύματόν με κύνεσ πρώτῃσι θύρῃσι ὠμησταὶ ἐρύωσιν, ἐπεὶ κέ τισ ὀξέι χαλκῷ τύψασἠὲ βαλὼν ῥεθέων ἐκ θυμὸν ἕληται. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 24 5:2)
  • ἆ δείλ’ οὐ μὲν σοί γε πατὴρ καὶ πότνια μήτηρ ὄσσε καθαιρήσουσι θανόντι περ, ἀλλ’ οἰωνοὶ ὠμησταὶ ἐρύουσι, περὶ πτερὰ πυκνὰ βαλόντεσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 44:4)
  • αὐτὸν δ’ ἂν πύματόν με κύνεσ πρώτῃσι θύρῃσιν ὠμησταὶ ἐρύουσιν, ἐπεί κέ τισ ὀξέϊ χαλκῷ τύψασ ἠὲ βαλὼν ῥεθέων ἐκ θυμὸν ἕληται, οὓσ τρέφον ἐν μεγάροισι τραπεζῆασ θυραωρούσ, οἵ κ’ ἐμὸν αἷμα πιόντεσ ἀλύσσοντεσ περὶ θυμῷ κείσοντ’ ἐν προθύροισι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 22 6:13)

Synonyms

  1. eating raw flesh

Similar forms

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

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