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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

  • διφαλαγγία δὲ ἀμφίστομοσ, ἥτισ ἐν τῇ πορείᾳ τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ ἄχει ἐξ ἑκατέρων τῶν μερῶν ἐν παραγωγαῖσ τεταγμένουσ, τοὺσ μὲν ἐν δεξιᾷ παραγωγῇ, τοὺσ δὲ ἐν εὐωνύμῳ, τοὺσ δὲ οὐραγοὺσ ἔσω τεταγμένουσ· (Arrian, chapter 29 3:1)
  • τῶν γὰρ κροκοδείλων οὗτοσ ᾠὰ λαμβάνων πρὶν θηριοῦσθαι τὸν γόνον καταγνύει, ἔπειτ’ ἀφανίζει, διότι δ’ ἔστ’ ἀμφίστομοσ, κεντεῖ κάτωθεν, τοῖσ δὲ χείλεσιν δάκνων οἶδ’ ἐγὼ ὃσ υ νέοσ ὤν ἐστιν βαρύσ, ἂν δὲ γέρων, ἄπτεροσ ὢν κούφωσ πέταται καὶ γῆν ἀφανίζει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 71 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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