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ἀμφίθετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίθετος ἀμφίθετη ἀμφίθετον

Structure: ἀμφιθετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. that will stand on both ends, with handles on both sides

Examples

  • "κατ’ ἀντιστοιχίαν ἐστὶ πιάλη, ἡ τὸ πιεῖν ἅλισ παρέχουσα, μείζων γὰρ τοῦ ποτηρίου, ἡ δὲ ἀμφίθετοσ καὶ ἀπύρωτοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 103 2:3)
  • πέμπτον δ’ ὑπελείπετ’ ἀέθλον, ἀμφίθετοσ φιάλη· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 57:4)

Related

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

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