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αὐτόκωπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτόκωπος αὐτόκωπη αὐτόκωπον

Structure: αὐτοκωπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kw/ph

Sense

  1. together with the hilt, up to the hilt

Examples

  • ὀτοτοτοτοτοτοτοῖ, ἴτω τισ δορυ‐ σθενὴσ ἀνήρ, ἀναλυτὴρ δόμων, Σκυθικά τ’ ἐν χεροῖν παλίντον’ ἐν ἔργῳ βέλη ’πιπάλλων Ἄρησ σχέδιά τ’ αὐτόκωπα νωμῶν ξίφη. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. together with the hilt

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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