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ὠμοβρώς

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠμοβρώς ὠμοβρῶτος

Structure: ὠμοβρωτ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: bibrw/skw

Sense

  1. eating raw flesh

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὠμοβρώς ὠμοβρῶτε ὠμοβρῶτες
Genitive ὠμοβρῶτος ὠμοβρώτοιν ὠμοβρώτων
Dative ὠμοβρῶτι ὠμοβρώτοιν ὠμοβρῶσιν*
Accusative ὠμοβρῶτα ὠμοβρῶτε ὠμοβρῶτας
Vocative ὠμοβρώ ὠμοβρῶτε ὠμοβρῶτες

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

  • οὗ δὴ στενὸν δίαυλον ᾤκισται πέτρασ δεινὴ Χάρυβδισ, ὠμοβρώσ τ’ ὀρειβάτησ Κύκλωψ, Λιγυστίσ θ’ ἡ συῶν μορφώτρια Κίρκη, θαλάσσησ θ’ ἁλμυρᾶσ ναυάγια, λωτοῦ τ’ ἔρωτεσ, Ἡλίου θ’ ἁγναὶ βόεσ, αἳ σάρκα φωνήεσσαν ἥσουσίν ποτε, πικρὰν Ὀδυσσεῖ γῆρυν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 3:18)
  • ἰὼ Ζεῦ, τὸ σὸν γένοσ ἄγονον αὐτίκα λυσσάδεσ ὠμοβρῶτεσ ἄδικοι Ποιναὶ κακοῖσιν ἐκπετάσουσιν. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric1)

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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