Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἐχρῶντο γὰρ ἀπείρωσ τοῖσ ὅπλοισ ἀπόλεμοι τελέωσ ὄντεσ, τόξοισ τε καὶ λόγχαισ [καὶ] ξίφεσι καὶ σφενδόναισ, οἱ πλεῖστοι δ’ αὐτῶν ἀμφιστόμοισ πελέκεσιν· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 47:21)

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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