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Κρητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κρητικός Κρητική Κρητικόν

Structure: Κρητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or from the island of Crete, Cretan
  2. a short garment
  3. a Cretic, amphimacer

Examples

  • κρητικῶσ οὖν τὼ πόδε καὶ σὺ κίνει. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Exodus, trochees2)
  • καὶ τούτων σημεῖα φέρουσι τῆσ διαλέκτου, δεικνύντεσ τὰ πολλὰ διαμένειν παρ’ αὑτοῖσ Κρητικῶσ ὀνομαζόμενα· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 46 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a short garment

Related

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

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