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ψαφαρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψαφαρός ψαφαρή ψαφαρόν

Structure: ψαφαρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ya/w

Sense

  1. easily reduced to powder, friable, crumbling, the sandy shore
  2. thin, watery

Examples

  • οἰκτρὸν γὰρ πόλιν ὧδ’ ὠγυγίαν Αἴδᾳ προϊάψαι, δορὸσ ἄγραν δουλίαν ψαφαρᾷ σποδῷ ὑπ’ ἀνδρὸσ Ἀχαιοῦ θεόθεν περθομέναν ἀτίμωσ, τὰσ δὲ κεχειρωμένασ ἄγεσθαι, ἒ ἔ, νέασ τε καὶ παλαιὰσ ἱππηδὸν πλοκάμων, περιρ‐ ρηγνυμένων φαρέων. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 21)
  • ψαφαρὰ γάρ ἐστι καὶ νοτερὸν ἐξ αὐτῆσ οὐδὲν ὅ τι καὶ φῦσαι καρπὸν δύναιτο. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. thin

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

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