Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χαῦνος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαῦνος χαῦνη χαῦνον

Structure: χαυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xai/nw

Sense

  1. gaping, porous, spongy, loose
  2. unsubstantial, empty, frivolous

Examples

  • ὅσα δέ γε αὖ τὴν μὲν συστροφὴν χαύνην λαμβάνει, τῇ δὲ τοῦ στήμονοσ ἐμπλέξει πρὸσ τὴν τῆσ γνάψεωσ ὁλκὴν ἐμμέτρωσ τὴν μαλακότητα ἴσχει, ταῦτ’ ἄρα κρόκην μὲν τὰ νηθέντα, τὴν δὲ ἐπιτεταγμένην αὐτοῖσ εἶναι τέχνην τὴν κροκονητικὴν φῶμεν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 155:9)
  • τῆσ δὲ τὸν χρυσὸν ἐχούσησ γῆσ τὴν μὲν σκληροτάτην πυρὶ πολλῷ καύσαντεσ καὶ ποιήσαντεσ χαύνην προσάγουσι τὴν διὰ τῶν χειρῶν κατεργασίαν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 12 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. unsubstantial

Related

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

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