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δαίδαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δαίδαλος

Structure: δαιδαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: redupl. from Root DAL

Sense

  1. cunningly or curiously wrought, cunning works
  2. Daedalus, the cunning worker, the artist

Examples

  • ἐκάλουν δὲ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν πρότερον ἔτι ἢ Δαίδαλοσ ὁ Παλαμάονοσ ἐγένετο Ἀθήνῃσι, τούτῳ δὲ ὕστερον ἀπὸ τῶν δαιδάλων ἐπίκλησιν γενέσθαι δοκῶ καὶ οὐκ ἐκ γενετῆσ τεθῆναι τὸ ὄνομα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 2:5)
  • ἐθελήσαντεσ δὲ ἀπὸ Δαιδάλων ἐσ Δαίδαλα ἕτερα ἀναριθμῆσαι τὸν μεταξὺ χρόνον ἐσ τὸ ἀκριβέστατον οὐκ ἐγενόμεθα οἱοῖ́ τε. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 3:2)
  • Δαιδάλων δὲ ἑορτὴν τῶν μεγάλων καὶ Βοιωτοί σφισι συνεορτάζουσι, δι’ ἑξηκοστοῦ δὲ ἄγουσιν ἔτουσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 6:2)
  • μεταξὺ δὲ πρῶτον μὲν ἀπὸ Δαιδάλων πλέουσιν ἐπὶ τὴν δύσιν ἐπ’ εὐθείασ τῇ ἐκ Κιλικίασ καὶ Παμφυλίασ καὶ Λυκίασ παραλίᾳ κόλποσ ἐστὶν εὐλίμενοσ Γλαῦκοσ καλούμενοσ, εἶτα τὸ Ἀρτεμίσιον ἄκρα καὶ ἱερόν, εἶτα τὸ Λητῷον ἄλσοσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 2 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. cunningly or curiously wrought

Related

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

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