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ἄτριπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄτριπτος ἄτριπτη ἄτριπτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + τριπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tri/bw

Sense

  1. not worn by work, not threshed, on which one cannot tread, untraversed

Examples

  • Πέτροσ ἐγὼ τὸ πάλαι γυρὴ καὶ ἄτριπτοσ ἐπιβλὴσ τὴν Ἡρακλείτου ἔνδον ἔχω κεφαλὴν αἰών μ’ ἔτριψεν κροκάλαισ ἴσον ἐν γὰρ ἀμάξῃ παμφόρῳ αἰζηῶν εἰνοδίη τέταμαι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4791)

Related

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

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