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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

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

  • ἣ δ’ ἔτεκ’ ἄλλο πέλωρον ἀμήχανον, οὐδὲν ἐοικὸσ θνητοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ οὐδ’ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν, σπῆι ἔνι γλαφυρῷ θείην κρατερόφρον’ Ἔχιδναν, ἥμισυ μὲν νύμφην ἑλικώπιδα καλλιπάρῃον, ἥμισυ δ’ αὖτε πέλωρον ὄφιν δεινόν τε μέγαν τε αἰόλον ὠμηστὴν ζαθέησ ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 30:1)
  • δεύτερον αὖτισ ἔτικτεν ἀμήχανον, οὔ τι φατειὸν Κέρβερον ὠμηστήν, Αἴδεω κύνα χαλκεόφωνον, πεντηκοντακέφαλον, ἀναιδέα τε κρατερόν τε· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 32:4)
  • ὁ γὰρ τοῦ θεοῦ νάρθηξ ἱκανὸσ κολαστὴσ τοῦ μεθύοντοσ, ἂν μὴ προσγενόμενοσ ὁ θυμὸσ ὠμηστὴν καὶ μαινόλην ἀντὶ λυαίου καὶ χορείου ποιήσῃ τὸν ἄκρατον. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 13 19:2)
  • ὁ γὰρ τοῦ θεοῦ νάρθηξ ἱκανὸσ κολαστὴσ τοῦ μεθύοντοσ, ἂν μὴ προσγενόμενοσ ὁ θυμὸσ ὠμηστὴν καὶ μαινόλην ἀντὶ λυαίου καὶ χορείου ποιήσῃ τὸν ἄκρατον. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 13 7:2)
  • ἔκτυπε δ’ αἰθὴρ οἰμωγῇ, μέσφ’ αὖτισ ἀπ’ οὔρεοσ ἀίσσοντα αἰετὸν ὠμηστὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν εἰσενόησαν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 21:14)

Synonyms

  1. eating raw flesh

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

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