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ἀμφέλικτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφέλικτος

Structure: ἀμφελικτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for a)mfie/liktos

Sense

  1. coiled round

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

  • ὑμνῳδούσ τε κόρασ ἤλυθεν ἑσπέριον ἐσ αὐλάν, χρυσέων πετάλων ἄπο μηλοφόρον χερὶ καρπὸν ἀμέρ‐ ξων, δράκοντα πυρσόνωτον, ὅσ <σφ’> ἄπλατον ἀμφελικτὸσ ἕλικ’ ἐφρούρει, κτανών· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, antistrophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. coiled round

Similar forms

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

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