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ἀντίπορθμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίπορθμος ἀντίπορθμη ἀντίπορθμον

Structure: ἀντιπορθμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. over the straits, on the opposite side of the straits

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

  • εἰσπλέουσι τοίνυν τὸν κατὰ στήλασ πορθμὸν ἐν δεξιᾷ μέν ἐστιν ἡ Λιβύη μέχρι τῆσ τοῦ Νείλου ῥύσεωσ, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δὲ ἀντίπορθμοσ ἡ Εὐρώπη μέχρι τοῦ Τανάιδοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 52:2)
  • γίνεται οὖν ἀντίπορθμοσ τῇ τε Ἀττικῇ καὶ Βοιωτίᾳ καὶ Λοκρίδι καὶ τοῖσ Μαλιεῦσι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 1 3:3)
  • τούτοισ δ’ ἀντίπορθμόσ ἐστιν ἡ Πελοπόννησοσ, ἀπολαμβάνουσα μεταξὺ τὸν Κορινθιακὸν κόλπον καὶ σχηματίζουσά τε τοῦτον καὶ σχηματιζομένη ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 1 2:8)
  • προσλαμβάνουσι δὲ καὶ τῆσ ἑκατέρωθεν παραλίασ, ἡ μὲν Ἠλεία πρὸσ ἄρκτον ἐπιστρέφουσα καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦ Κορινθιακοῦ κόλπου μέχρι ἄκρασ Ἀράξου, καθ’ ἣν ἀντίπορθμόσ ἐστιν ἥ τε Ἀκαρνανία καὶ αἱ προκείμεναι νῆσοι, Ζάκυνθοσ καὶ Κεφαλληνία καὶ Ἰθάκη καὶ αἱ Ἐχινάδεσ, ὧν ἐστι καὶ τὸ Δουλίχιον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 2 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. over the straits

Related

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

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