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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

  • "ἀλλὰ σὺ τὸ ὅμοιον εἰργάσω με ὥσπερ εἴ τισ ὁλκάδα τριάρμενον ἐν οὐρίῳ πλέουσαν, ἐμπεπνευματωμένου τοῦ ἀκατίου, εὐφοροῦσάν τε καὶ ἀκροκυματοῦσαν, ἕκτοράσ τινασ ἀμφιστόμουσ καὶ ἰσχάδασ σιδηρᾶσ ἀφεὶσ καὶ ναυσιπέδασ ἀναχαιτίζοι τοῦ δρόμου τὸ ῥόθιον, φθόνῳ τῆσ εὐηνεμίασ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 15:3)
  • κρατῆρέσ εἰσιν, ἀνδρὸσ εὔχειροσ τέχνη, ὧν κρᾶτ’ ἔρεψον καὶ λαβὰσ ἀμφιστόμουσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 5:9)

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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