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ἀμφιδέξιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: amphidexios

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
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἀμφιδέξιος ἀμφιδέξία ἀμφιδέξιον
Genitive ἀμφιδεξίου ἀμφιδέξίας ἀμφιδεξίου
Dative ἀμφιδεξίῳ ἀμφιδέξίᾳ ἀμφιδεξίῳ
Accusative ἀμφιδέξιον ἀμφιδέξίαν ἀμφιδέξιον
Vocative ἀμφιδέξιε ἀμφιδέξία ἀμφιδέξιον
DualN/A/V ἀμφιδεξίω ἀμφιδέξία ἀμφιδεξίω
G/D ἀμφιδεξίοιν ἀμφιδέξίαιν ἀμφιδεξίοιν
PluralNominative ἀμφιδέξιοι ἀμφιδέξιαι ἀμφιδέξια
Genitive ἀμφιδεξίων ἀμφιδέξιῶν ἀμφιδεξίων
Dative ἀμφιδεξίοις ἀμφιδέξίαις ἀμφιδεξίοις
Accusative ἀμφιδεξίους ἀμφιδέξίας ἀμφιδέξια
Vocative ἀμφιδέξιοι ἀμφιδέξιαι ἀμφιδέξια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀμφιδέξιος ἀμφιδεξίου ἀμφιδεξιότερος ἀμφιδεξιοτέρου ἀμφιδεξιότατος ἀμφιδεξιοτάτου
Adverb ἀμφιδεξίως ἀμφιδεξιότερον ἀμφιδεξιότατα

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

  • καίτοι οὐκ ὀλίγων ταλάντων ὁ Σαρδιανὸς ἐκεῖνος ὄλεθρος τὸ ἀμφιδέξιον τοῦτο ἔπος ἐπρίατο. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 43:5)
  • καὶ τὸν Βοιωτὸν δὲ καὶ τὸν Εὔβοιον τοὺς τὰς παρῳδίας γράψαντας λογίους ἂν φήσαιμι διὰ τὸ παίζειν ἀμφιδεξίως καὶ τῶν προγενεστέρων ποιητῶν ὑπερέχειν ἐπιγεγονότας. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 55 1:3)
  • "οὐ γὰρ ὁ μὲν φιλήδονος ἐρωτηθεὶς εἰ πρὸς θῆλυ νεύει μᾶλλον ἢ ἐπὶ τἄρσενα καὶ ἀποκρινάμενος ὅπου προσῇ τὸ κάλλος, ἀμφιδέξιος ἔδοξεν οἰκείως ἀποκρίνασθαι τῆς ἐπιθυμίας: (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 216)
  • ὅπου προσῇ τὸ κάλλος, ἀμφιδέξιος. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 12 23:2)
  • ἦν δὲ βέλτιον εἰπεῖν ὅπου προσῇ τὸ σῶφρον, ἀμφιδέξιος ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ἰσόρροπος: (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 12 23:3)
  • Γυνὴ ἀμφιδέξιος οὐ γίνεται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 87.42)

Synonyms

  1. two-edged

  2. double-meaning

Related

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

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