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ἀρχιθάλασσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρχιθάλασσος ἀρχιθάλασση ἀρχιθάλασσον

Structure: ἀρχιθαλασς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qa/lassa

Sense

  1. ruling the sea

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

  • ἄγκυράν τε, νεῶν στιβαρὴν χέρα, καὶ φιλοναύτην σπέρμα πυρὸσ σῴζειν πέτρον ἐπιστάμενον, ἀρχιθάλασσε Πόσειδον, Ἀμύντιχοσ ὕστατα δῶρα θήκατ’, ἐπεὶ μογερῆσ παύσαθ’ ἁλιπλανίησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 38 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. ruling the sea

Similar forms

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

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