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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

  • 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

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

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