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βωμοειδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βωμοειδής βωμοειδές

Structure: βωμοειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. like an altar

Examples

  • Διόδωροσ δ’ ὁ περιηγητὴσ ἐν τοῖσ Περὶ μνημάτων εἴρηκεν ὡσ ὑπονοῶν μᾶλλον ἢ γινώσκων, ὅτι περὶ τὸν μέγαν λιμένα τοῦ Πειραιῶσ ἀπὸ τοῦ κατὰ τὸν Ἄλκιμον ἀκρωτηρίου πρόκειταί τισ οἱο͂ν ἀγκών, καὶ κάμψαντι τοῦτον ἐντόσ, ᾗ τὸ ὑπεύδιον τῆσ θαλάττησ, κρηπίσ ἐστιν εὐμεγέθησ καὶ τὸ περὶ αὐτὴν βωμοειδὲσ τάφοσ τοῦ Θεμισκοκλέουσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 32 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. like an altar

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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