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ψελλός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψελλός ψελλή ψελλόν

Structure: ψελλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unable to pronounce certain letters
  2. inarticulate, obscure

Examples

  • εἰσ τίνα δὲ ταῦτ’ ἀποτεινόμενοσ ὁ Ἔφιπποσ εἴρηκεν ὡρ́α σοι ζητεῖν, καλὲ Οὐλπιανέ, καὶ διδάσκειν ἡμᾶσ καὶ τῶν εἰρημένων τούτων εἲ τί σοι ψελλόν τε καὶ δυσεύρετον, ἐπαναδίπλαζε καὶ σαφῶσ ἐκμάνθανε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 38 3:2)
  • τῶν δ’ εἴ τί σοι ψελλόν τε καὶ δυσεύρετον, ἐπανδίπλαζε καὶ σαφῶσ ἐκμάνθανε· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. inarticulate

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

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