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βαρύτιμος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: barytimos

Principal Part: βαρύτιμος βαρύτιμη βαρύτιμον

Structure: βαρυτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: τιμή

Sense

  1. very costly

Examples

  • ὦ πόλις, ὦ γῆ, καὶ λευκὸν ὕδωρ, ὕπατοί τε θεοί, καὶ βαρύτιμοι χθόνιοι θήκας κατέχοντες, καὶ Ζεὺς σωτὴρ τρίτος, οἰκοφύλαξ ὁσίων ἀνδρῶν, δέξασθ ἱκέτην τὸν θηλυγενῆ στόλον αἰδοίῳ πνεύματι χώρας: (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, lyric 1:5)
  • προσῆλθεν αὐτῷ γυνὴ ἔχουσα ἀλάβαστρον μύρου βαρυτίμου καὶ κατέχεεν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ ἀνακειμένου. (, chapter 26 9:1)
  • τῶν δὲ βαρυτίμων βαρέα καὶ τὰ τέλη. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 25:8)

Synonyms

  1. very costly

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

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