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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

  • ἦν γὰρ ἀμέλει τοιοῦτοσ ἐνίοισ, τοῖσ δὲ πολλοῖσ ὠμηστὴσ καὶ ἀγριώνιοσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 24 4:1)
  • ὑπερθορὼν δὲ πύργον ὠμηστὴσ λέων ἄδην ἔλειξεν αἵματοσ τυραννικοῦ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 2:8)
  • εἰ γάρ σ’ αἱρήσει καὶ ἐσόψεται ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὠμηστὴσ καὶ ἄπιστοσ ἀνὴρ ὅ γε οὔ σ’ ἐλεήσει, οὐδέ τί σ’ αἰδέσεται. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 18:5)

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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