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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

  • Ἅμα δ’ ἡμέρᾳ Καρχηδόνιοι μέν, οὐκ ἐνοχλουσῶν σφᾶσ ἔτι μηχανῶν πολεμίων, τὸ διαπεπτωκὸσ τοῦ διατειχίσματοσ ᾠκοδόμουν, καὶ πύργουσ ἐν αὐτῷ πολλοὺσ ἐποίουν ἐκ διαστήματοσ, Ῥωμαῖοι δ’ ἑτέρασ ἐργασάμενοι μηχανὰσ χώματα ἤγειρον ἀντιμέτωπα τοῖσ πύργοισ, δᾷδά τε συγκεκομμένην καὶ θεῖον ἐν κώθωσι καὶ πίσσαν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ ἐσφενδόνων, καὶ ἔστιν οὓσ τῶν πύργων ἐνεπίμπρασαν, καὶ τοὺσ Καρχηδονίουσ φεύγοντασ ἐδίωκον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 18 9:1)

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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