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ἀπόπτυστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόπτυστος ἀπόπτυστη ἀπόπτυστον

Structure: ἀποπτυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From a)poptu/w

Sense

  1. spat out, loathed, abominated

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

  • σὺ δ’ ἔρρ’ ἀπόπτυστόσ τε κἀπάτωρ ἐμοῦ, κακῶν κάκιστε, τάσδε συλλαβὼν ἀράσ, ἅσ σοι καλοῦμαι, μήτε γῆσ ἐμφυλίου δόρει κρατῆσαι μήτε νοστῆσαί ποτε τὸ κοῖλον Ἄργοσ, ἀλλὰ συγγενεῖ χερὶ θανεῖν κτανεῖν θ’ ὑφ’ οὗπερ ἐξελήλασαι. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:15)

Synonyms

  1. spat out

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

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