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ψόφος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψόφος

Sense

  1. any inarticulate sound, a sound, noise
  2. a mere sound, empty sound, noise

Examples

  • ψόφοσ ἁρμάτων καὶ ἱππευόντων. κατοικοῦσα Λαχίσ, ἀρχηγὸσ ἁμαρτίασ αὐτή ἐστι τῇ θυγατρὶ Σιών, ὅτι ἐν σοὶ εὑρέθησαν ἀσέβειαι τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Michaeae 1:13)
  • Διόμηδεσ, οὐκ ἤκουσασ ‐ ἢ κενὸσ ψόφοσ στάζει δι’ ὤτων; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode1)
  • ἔνθα δή, ὦ φιλότησ, πολλὰ καὶ ἐλεεινὰ ἦν καὶ ἀκοῦσαι καὶ ἰδεῖν μαστίγων τε γὰρ ὁμοῦ ψόφοσ ἠκούετο καὶ οἰμωγὴ τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ πυρὸσ ὀπτωμένων καὶ στρέβλαι καὶ κύφωνεσ καὶ τροχοί, καὶ ἡ Χίμαιρα ἐσπάραττεν καὶ ὁ Κέρβεροσ ἐδάρδαπτεν. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 14:2)
  • ἠπόρουν δὲ οἱ πλησίον οὗτινοσ εἰή τὰ νομίσματα, τοῦ μὲν παιδὸσ ἀρνουμένου μὴ ἀποβεβληκέναι, τοῦ δὲ Κλεοδήμου, καθ’ ὃν ὁ ψόφοσ ἐγένετο, μὴ προσποιουμένου τὴν ἀπόρριψιν. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 15:6)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀνοιγνυμένων ψόφοσ ἤδη τῶν προπυλαίων. (Aristotle, Choral, anapests11)

Synonyms

  1. any inarticulate sound

  2. a mere sound

Related

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

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