Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀμφίκρανος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίκρανος ἀμφίκρανη ἀμφίκρανον

Structure: ἀμφικραν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ka/ra

Sense

  1. two headed
  2. surrounding the head

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

  • τήν τ’ ἀμφίκρανον καὶ παλιμβλαστῆ κύνα ὕδραν φονεύσασ μυρίων τ’ ἄλλων πόνων διῆλθον ἀγέλασ κἀσ νεκροὺσ ἀφικόμην, Αἵδου πυλωρὸν κύνα τρίκρανον ἐσ φάοσ ὅπωσ πορεύσαιμ’ ἐντολαῖσ Εὐρυσθέωσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:10)

Synonyms

  1. two headed

  2. surrounding the head

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

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