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βωμοειδής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: bōmoeidēs

Principal Part: βωμοειδής βωμοειδές

Structure: βωμοειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: εἶδος

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 οἱο῀ν 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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