glimmer

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

light: P. and V. φῶς. τό, Ar. and V. φάος, τό. φέγγος, τό (also Plato but rare V.).

flash: Ar. and V. σέλας, τό (also Plato but rare P.), αὐγή, ἡ (Plato but rare P.).

beam: P. and V. ἀκτίς, ἡ, V. βολή, ἡ.

a glimmer of hope: V. ἀρχὴ ἐλπίδος.

had you but given them a tiny glimmer of hope they would have been saved: P. εἰ μικρὰν ὑπεφήνατ' ἐλπίδ' ἡντινοῦν αὐτοῖς ἐσώθησαν ἄν (Dem. 379).

verb intransitive

just appear: P. ὑποφαίνεσθαι; see also gleam.