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χαμαιπετής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαμαιπετής χαμαιπετές

Structure: χαμαιπετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pi/ptw

Sense

  1. falling to the ground, that has fallen on the earth, prostrate
  2. lying on the ground
  3. on the ground
  4. along the ground
  5. falling to the ground, coming to naught
  6. grovelling, low

Examples

  • ἔμολε δ’ ἁ τάλαιν’ Ἑρμιόνα δόμουσ ἐπὶ φόνῳ χαμαιπετεῖ ματρόσ, ἅ νιν ἔτεκεν τλάμων. (Euripides, episode, lyric 3:8)
  • παρελθὼν δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ βασιλείου λαμβάνει τὴν Καισωνίαν, γυνὴ δ’ ἦν τοῦ Γαί̈ου, παρακατακειμένην τῷ σώματι τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ χαμαιπετεῖ καὶ πάντων ἐν ἀτυχίᾳ ὧν χαρίζοιτ’ ἂν ὁ νόμοσ τοῖσ μεταστᾶσιν, αἵματί τε ἀναπεφυρμένην ἐκ τῶν τραυμάτων καὶ πολλῇ τῇ ταλαιπωρίᾳ συμφερομένην τῆσ θυγατρὸσ παρερριμμένησ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 221:1)

Synonyms

  1. falling to the ground

  2. lying on the ground

  3. on the ground

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

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