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ἀντίθυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίθυρος ἀντίθυρᾱ ἀντίθυρον

Structure: ἀντιθυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

Sense

  1. opposite the door, the part facing the door, the vestibule
  2. the side of a room facing the door

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

  • κατὰ δὲ τὸν μέσον τοῖχον ἄνω τῆσ ἀντιθύρου. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 26:1)
  • ἠπείγοντο δὲ αὐτίκα πρὸσ τὴν ἔξοδον, καὶ πρὶν ἀκριβῶσ ἰδεῖν, ἐξηλαύνοντο ὑπὸ τῶν ἀεὶ ἐπεισιόντων ἐτετρύπητο δὲ κατὰ τὸ ἀντίθυρον ἄλλη ἔξοδοσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 16:2)
  • ἐσ δὲ τὸ ἀντίθυρον ἡ ἄλλη πληθύσ, ὡσ ἕκαστοσ ἀξίασ εἶχε. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 8:2)
  • βᾶτε κατ’ ἀντιθύρων ὅσον τάχιστα, νῦν, τὰ πρὶν εὖ θέμενοι, τάδ’ ὡσ πάλιν. (Sophocles, choral, antistrophe 214)
  • στῆ δὲ κατ’ ἀντίθυρον κλισίησ Ὀδυσῆϊ φανεῖσα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 16 17:5)

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

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