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ἀμυντήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμυντήριος ἀμυντήριη ἀμυντήριον

Structure: ἀμυντηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)mu/nw

Sense

  1. defensive

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

  • αἰτιᾶσθαι μὲν ὑμᾶσ τὴν φύσιν, ὅτι μὴ κέντρα προσέφυσε τοῖσ σώμασι μηδ’ ἀμυντηρίουσ ὀδόντασ μηδ’ ἀγκύλουσ ὄνυχασ, αὐτοὺσ δὲ τῆσ ψυχῆσ τὸ σύμφυτον ἀφαιρεῖν ὅπλον καὶ κολούειν; (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 4 27:1)

Related

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

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