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ἀμφιθάλασσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφιθάλασσος ἀμφιθάλασση ἀμφιθάλασσον

Structure: ἀμφιθαλασς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qa/lassa

Sense

  1. with sea on both sides, sea-girt

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

  • εἶπε Λερναίασ ἀπ’ ἀκτᾶσ εὐθὺν ἐσ ἀμφιθάλασσον νομόν, ἔνθα ποτὲ βρέχε θεῶν βασιλεὺσ ὁ μέγασ χρυσέαισ νιφάδεσσι πόλιν, ἁνίχ’ Ἁφαίστου τέχναισιν χαλκελάτῳ πελέκει πατέροσ Αθαναία κορυφὰν κατ’ ἄκραν ἀνορούσαισ’ ἀλάλαξεν ὑπερμάκει βοᾷ· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 7 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. with sea on both sides

Similar forms

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

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