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ἀκταῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκταῖος ἀκταῖη ἀκταῖον

Structure: ἀκται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)kth/

Sense

  1. on the coast, coast-land
  2. haunting the coast

Examples

  • "οὑτωσὶ λέγων ’ σκεύη κελεύοντι λέγειν ὁποῖα εἰπεῖν τρίπουσ, χύτρα, λυχνεῖον, ἀκταία, βάθρον, σπόγγοσ, λέβησ, σκαφεῖον, ὅλμοσ, λήκυθοσ, σπυρίσ, μάχαιρα, τρυβλίον, κρατήρ, ῥαφίσ, ἢ πάλιν ὄψων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 606)

Synonyms

  1. on the coast

Related

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

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