εὔφημος — Cambridge Greek Lexicon

dial.εὔφᾱμοςονadjφήμη of persons, their lips, utterancesmaintaining propriety of speechby avoiding ill-omened words, i.e. by silence, as the prelude to a ritual or solemn act, preserving auspicious silencereverently silentS. E. Ar.using words of good omen onlyof persons, their lips, tongue, speech or song, thoughtsauspicious, reverent, piousXenoph. Simon. Trag. Ar.of questions, a type of songPl.of legendary storiesPlu.w.imperatv., as a response, deprecating inauspicious languageεὔφημος ἴσθι, εὔφημα φώνειor sim.don't say that!, heaven forbid!S. E.of an oracular shrinewhere auspicious language is appropriatehallowedE.of a dayabout which it is appropriate to use auspicious languageauspicious, joyfulA.of the singing of choirsreverent, joyfulE.of labours in the service of a godE. without religious connot., of speecheslaudatory, favourable, complimentaryPlb.pejor., of a manner of speecheuphemisticAeschin. εὐφήμως

dial.εὐφᾱ́μωςadvsuperl. reverently, piouslyref. to calling upon or singing about a deityA. Pl.ref. to performing a religious actionTheoc.w. sarcastic connot.using fine-sounding languagesolemnlyblandlyref. to wording a proposalD.

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Euphemus

uttering sounds of good omen

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εὔφημος

Headword (normalized):

εὔφημος

Headword (normalized/stripped):

ευφημος

Intro Text:

εὔ-φημος

IDX:

16607

URN:

urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionary-entries.atlas_v1:cambridge-greek-lexicon-16608

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