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ἀμφιδέξιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφιδέξιος ἀμφιδέξιη ἀμφιδέξιον

Structure: ἀμφιδεξι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with two right hands, very dextrous
  2. two-edged
  3. double-meaning, ambiguous
  4. both, each

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

  • τε τῶν γυναικῶν καὶ παίδων καὶ τῆσ οὐσίασ κοινότησ καὶ τὰ συσσίτια τῶν γυναικῶν, ἔτι δ’ ὁ περὶ τὴν μέθην νόμοσ, τὸ τοὺσ νήφοντασ συμποσιαρχεῖν, καὶ τὴν ἐν τοῖσ πολεμικοῖσ ἄσκησιν ὅπωσ ἀμφιδέξιοι γίνωνται κατὰ τὴν μελέτην, ὡσ δέον μὴ τὴν μὲν χρήσιμον εἶναι τοῖν χεροῖν τὴν δὲ ἄχρηστον. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 318:1)

Synonyms

  1. two-edged

  2. double-meaning

Related

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

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