Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

αὐτοσχέδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτοσχέδιος αὐτοσχέδιη αὐτοσχέδιον

Structure: αὐτοσχεδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hand to hand, in close fight, in the fray
  2. off-hand

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

  • ἡ δ’ ἄλλη δύναμισ αὐτῷ παρηκολούθει πεζῶν τε καὶ ἱππέων κεκοσμημένη κατὰ τέλη θεούσ τε ὑμνοῦσα πατρίοισ ᾠδαῖσ καὶ τὸν ἡγεμόνα κυδαίνουσα ποιήμασιν αὐτοσχεδίοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 34 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. hand to hand

  2. off-hand

Related

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

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