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ἀμφίθυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίθυρος ἀμφίθυρᾱ ἀμφίθυρον

Structure: ἀμφιθυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

Sense

  1. with double entrance
  2. a hall

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

  • καὶ μετὰ τὴν τελευτὴν ἐκείνου τὸν ἀμφίθυρον οἶκον, ὃν κεκλεισμένον αὐτὸσ συνεῖχεν, ὥσπερ ὄντωσ ἐν αὐτῷ τιθασεύων καθειργμένον τὸν πόλεμον, ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων ἀναπετάσαντεσ αἵματοσ καὶ νεκρῶν τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἐνέπλησαν· (Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, chapter 4 6:2)
  • οἶκον μὲν ὁρᾷσ τόνδ’ ἀμφίθυρον πετρίνησ κοίτησ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, anapests1)

Synonyms

  1. with double entrance

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

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