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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

  • εἰδώσ σε πάντων διαφέροντα τῇ τέχνῃ τῇ τ’ ὀξύτητι μετὰ Θίβρωνα, Δαίδαλε, τὸν ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν, τὸν καλούμενον Πέρασ, δοὺσ μισθὸν ὃν μ’ ᾔτησασ ἥκω δεῦρ’ ἄγων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 40 3:1)

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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