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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

  • "καὶ γὰρ καὶ λάγυνον τουτονὶ παρηβηκότοσ ἥκω ὑμῖν κομίζων καὶ τυροῦ τροφαλίδασ ^ καὶ ἐλαίασ χαμαιπετεῖσ ‐ φυλάττω δ’ αὐτὰσ ὑπὸ σφραγῖσιν θριπηδέστοισ ‐ καὶ ἄλλασ ἐλαίασ νευστὰσ καὶ πήλινα ταυτὶ ποτήρια, ὀξυόστρακα, εὐπυνδάκωτα, ὡσ ἐξ αὐτῶν πίνοιμεν, καὶ πλακοῦντα ἐξ ἐντέρων κρωβυλώδη τὴν πλοκήν. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 13:1)
  • Παπαῖ, ὦ Ἑρμότιμε, ἡλίκουσ ἡμᾶσ ἀποφαίνεισ, οὐδὲ κατὰ τοὺσ Πυγμαίουσ ἐκείνουσ, ἀλλὰ χαμαιπετεῖσ παντάπασιν ἐν χρῷ τῆσ γῆσ. (Lucian, 11:5)
  • πολὺν ἄγαν χρόνον χαμαιπετεῖσ ἔκεισθ’ ἀεί. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, ephymn 23)
  • πολὺν ἄγαν χρόνον χαμαιπετεῖσ ἔκεισθ’ ἀεί. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, ephymn 23)

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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