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ἁλίζωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁλίζωνος ἁλίζωνη ἁλίζωνον

Structure: ἁλιζων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls, zw/nh

Sense

  1. sea-girt

Examples

  • πρῶτον τοίνυν ἀπαιτήσομεν αὐτὸν τίνεσ εἰσὶν οἱ ἐντὸσ τοῦ Ἅλυοσ Ἁλίζωνοι, οἱ καὶ τηλόθεν ἐξ Ἀλύβησ, ὅθεν ἀργύρου ἐστὶ γενέθλη· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 42:4)

Synonyms

  1. sea-girt

Related

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

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