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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

  • οἰκοῦσι δ’ ἐνταῦθα Μαυρούσιοι μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων λεγόμενοι, Μαῦροι δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων καὶ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων, Λιβυκὸν ἔθνοσ μέγα καὶ εὔδαιμον, ἀντίπορθμον τῇ Ἰβηρίᾳ. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 4:1)
  • κεῖται δ’ ἀντίπορθμον τοῖσ Γαδείροισ ἐν διάρματι σταδίων ὀκτακοσίων, ὅσον ἑκάτερα διέχει τοῦ κατὰ τὰσ στήλασ πορθμοῦ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 4:6)

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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