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ἀλεξίμβροτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλεξίμβροτος

Structure: ἀλεξιμβροτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. protecting mortals

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • κτίσεν δ’ ἄλσεα μείζονα θεῶν, εὐθύτομόν τε κατέθηκεν Ἀπολλωνίαισ ἀλεξιμβρότοισ πεδιάδα πομπαῖσ ἔμμεν ἱππόκροτον σκυρωτὰν ὁδόν, ἔνθα πρυμνοῖσ ἀγορᾶσ ἔπι δίχα κεῖται θανών. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 5 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. protecting mortals

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

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