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ἀμφίκομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίκομος ἀμφίκομη ἀμφίκομον

Structure: ἀμφικομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/mh

Sense

  1. with hair all round
  2. thick-leafed

Examples

  • ἂν δέ που ἱμείρῃσ αὐτοῦ γεύσασθαι, ὁμοῦ χρὴ κνίδασ ὀψωνεῖν, τὰσ ἀμφικόμουσ ἀκαλήφασ εἰσ ταὐτὸν μίξασ δ’ αὐτὰσ ἐπὶ τηγάνου ὄπτα, εὐώδη τρίψασ ἄνθη λαχάνων ἐν ἐλαίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 22 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. with hair all round

  2. thick-leafed

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

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