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ἀντιμέτωπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντιμέτωπος ἀντιμέτωπη ἀντιμέτωπον

Structure: ἀντιμετωπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/twpon

Sense

  1. front to front

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

  • ἐξὸν γὰρ αὐτῷ παρέντι τοὺσ διαπίπτοντασ ἑπομένῳ χειροῦσθαι τοὺσ ὄπισθεν οὐκ ἐποίησε τοῦτο, ἀλλ’ ἀντιμέτωποσ συνέρραξε τοῖσ Θηβαίοισ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 13:2)
  • ἐξὸν γὰρ αὐτῷ παρέντι τοὺσ διαπίπτοντασ ἀκολουθοῦντι χειροῦσθαι τοὺσ ὄπισθεν, οὐκ ἐποίησε τοῦτο, ἀλλ’ ἀντιμέτωποσ συνέρραξε τοῖσ Θηβαίοισ· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 22:3)

Synonyms

  1. front to front

Related

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

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