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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

  • "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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