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Ποντικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ποντικός Ποντική Ποντικόν

Structure: Ποντικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. from Pontus, Pontic, the bird-cherry

Examples

  • ^ τῶν δὲ ὑποβρυχίων τὰ σελάχια πολλὰ καὶ ὅσα ὀστράκινα τὸ δέρμα καὶ τεμάχη Ποντικὰ τῶν ἐκ σαργάνησ καὶ κωπαΐδεσ καὶ ὄρνισ σύντροφοσ καὶ ἀλεκτρυὼν ἤδη ἀπῳδὸσ καὶ ἰχθὺσ ἦν παράσιτοσ· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 6:4)
  • "τὰ δὲ Ποντικὰ κάρυα κεφαλαλγῆ, ἧττον δὲ ἐπιπολαστικὰ τῶν βασιλικῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 41 4:7)
  • "κάρυα Θάσια καὶ Ποντικὰ καὶ ἀμύγδαλα, ἔτι δὲ μήκων, ἃ φρύξασ θεράπευσον καλῶσ καὶ εἰσ θυίαν καθαρὰν τρῖψον ἐπιμελῶσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 5731)

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

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