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ψιλός?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: psīlos

Principal Part: ψιλός ψιλή ψιλόν

Structure: ψιλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. naked, bare
  2. bald, smooth
  3. unclad, uncovered
  4. small, frail, delicate
  5. (military) light (troops)
  6. unarmed
  7. (of words) without meter (i.e. prose)
  8. (poetry) without music (Epic vs Lyrical)
  9. (singing) without music (a capella)
  10. (music) without singing (instrumentals)
  11. (grammar) without the rough breathing (i.e. with the smooth breathing)
  12. (grammar) describing the unaspirated voiceless stops, π ‎(p), τ ‎(t), κ ‎(k), as opposed to the aspirated voiceless stops, φ ‎(ph), χ ‎(kh), θ ‎(th)

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἴμοι κακοδαίμων, ψιλὸς αὖ στρατεύσομαι. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:39)
  • σοὶ δέ, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, μελήσει τὸ ἀπὸ τούτου μηδένα παραδέχεσθαι αὐτῶν, ὃς ἂν μὴ ψιλὸς ᾖ καὶ τὰ ἔπιπλα, ὥσπερ ἔφην, ἀποβαλών. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 2:5)
  • Ἰδού σοι ψιλός εἰμι. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 7:16)
  • κἂν ψιλὸς ἀρκέσαιμι σοί γ ὡπλισμένῳ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 4:4)
  • ὦ σχῆμα πέτρας δίπυλον, αὖθις αὖ πάλιν εἴσειμι πρὸς σὲ ψιλός, οὐκ ἔχων τροφήν: (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:20)

Synonyms

  1. naked

  2. bald

  3. unclad

  4. light

  5. unarmed

  6. without music

  7. without music

  8. without the rough breathing

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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