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ψίθυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψίθυρος ψίθυρον

Structure: ψιθυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Perh. formed from the sound.

Sense

  1. whispering: slanderous
  2. a whisperer, slanderer
  3. twittering

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

  • μὴ κληθῇσ ψίθυροσ, καὶ τῇ γλώσσῃ σου μὴ ἐνέδρευε. ἐπὶ γὰρ τῷ κλέπτῃ ἐστὶν αἰσχύνη, καὶ κατάγνωσισ πονηρὰ ἐπὶ διγλώσσου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 5:14)
  • Ψίθυρον καὶ δίγλωσσον καταράσασθε, πολλοὺσ γὰρ εἰρηνεύοντασ ἀπώλεσαν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 28:13)
  • τοιούσδε λόγουσ ψιθύρουσ πλάσσων εἰσ ὦτα φέρει πᾶσιν Ὀδυσσεύσ, καὶ σφόδρα πείθει· (Sophocles, Ajax, episode, anapests4)
  • οἱᾶ ψιθύρων παλάμαισ ἕπετ’ αἰεὶ βροτῷ. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 2 23:1)
  • ὄρνιθεσ ψίθυροι, τί κεκράγατε; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1361)
  • ἢν μὲν γὰρ κατείπῃ σοῦ τισ ψιθυρὸσ οἰκέτησ, ὡσ μόνοσ οὐκ ἐπῄνεισ τὸν τῆσ δεσποίνησ παιδίσκον ὀρχούμενον ἢ κιθαρίζοντα, κίνδυνοσ οὐ μικρὸσ ἐκ τοῦ πράγματοσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 28:1)
  • ψίθυρόσ τ’ ἐκαλοῦ καὶ ψωμοκόλαξ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 806)

Synonyms

  1. whispering

  2. a whisperer

  3. twittering

Related

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

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