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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

  • γενομένησ δ’ ἀμφιστόμου τῆσ τῶν Κελτῶν δυνάμεωσ, οὐ μόνον καταπληκτικὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ πρακτικὴν εἶναι συνέβαινε τὴν τάξιν. (Polybius, Histories, book 2, chapter 28 6:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ τῆσ ἀμφιστόμου τάξεωσ ἰδιότησ τοιαύτην ἔχει τὴν χρείαν. (Polybius, Histories, book 2, chapter 29 4:1)

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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