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ἀμφίστομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφίστομος ἀμφίστομη ἀμφίστομον

Structure: ἀμφιστομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sto/ma

Sense

  1. with double mouth, on both sides of the bowl

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

  • ὅπλα κρείττονα τῶν βαρβαρικῶν ἡμῖν μεμηχάνηται, θώρακεσ καὶ κράνη καὶ κνημῖδεσ καὶ κραταιοὶ θυρεοί, ὑφ’ ὧν ὅλα τὰ σώματα ἔχομεν ἐν φυλακῇ, ξίφη τε ἀμφίστομα καὶ ἀντὶ λόγχησ ὑσσόσ, ἄφυκτον βέλοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 14, chapter 9 3:1)
  • ξίφη δ’ ἀμφίστομα καὶ σιδήρῳ διαφόρῳ κεχαλκευμένα φοροῦσιν, ἔχοντεσ σπιθαμιαίασ παραξιφίδασ, αἷσ χρῶνται κατὰ τὰσ ἐν ταῖσ μάχαισ συμπλοκάσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 33 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. with double mouth

Related

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

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