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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)
  • ἐρείσατ’, ὦ παῖ, πλευρὸν ἀμφιδέξιον ἐμφύντε τῷ φύσαντι, κἀναπαύσατον τοῦ πρόσθ’ ἐρήμου τοῦδε δυστήνου πλάνου. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode17)
  • ἀνδρωθέντι δὲ καὶ μαντευομένῳ Κυψέλῳ ἐγένετο ἀμφιδέξιον χρηστήριον ἐν Δελφοῖσι, τῷ πίσυνοσ γενόμενοσ ἐπεχείρησέ τε καὶ ἔσχε Κόρινθον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 92E 1:2)

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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