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βατράχειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βατράχειος

Structure: βατραχει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ba/traxos

Sense

  1. of or belonging to a frog, frog-colour, pale-green

Examples

  • πάσασ δ’ ὑμῖν φωνὰσ ἱεὶσ καὶ ψάλλων καὶ πτερυγίζων καὶ λυδίζων καὶ ψηνίζων καὶ βαπτόμενοσ βατραχείοισ οὐκ ἐξήρκεσεν, ἀλλὰ τελευτῶν ἐπὶ γήρωσ, οὐ γὰρ ἐφ’ ἥβησ, ἐξεβλήθη πρεσβύτησ ὤν, ὅτι τοῦ σκώπτειν ἀπελείφθη· (Aristotle, Parabasis, parabasis8)

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

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