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ψάμαθος

Second declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψάμαθος

Etym.: poetic form of ya/mmos

Sense

  1. sand, sea-sand, on the sands
  2. grains of sand

Examples

  • οὐδ’ εἴ μοι τόσα δοίη ὅσα ψάμαθόσ τε κόνισ τε. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 11 16:4)
  • οὐδ’ εἴ μοι τόσα δοίη ὅσα ψάμαθόσ τε κόνισ τε, οὐδέ κεν ὧσ ἔτι θυμὸν ἐμὸν πείσει’ Ἀγαμέμνων πρίν γ’ ἀπὸ πᾶσαν ἐμοὶ δόμεναι θυμαλγέα λώβην. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 23:9)

Synonyms

  1. sand

  2. grains of sand

Related

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

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