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διαλυτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαλυτής διαλυτοῦ

Structure: διαλυτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from dialu/w

Sense

  1. a dissolver, breaker-up

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • διανοεῖσθαι γὰρ δὴ κατακτᾶσθαι τὴν χώραν ταύτην καὶ στόλουσ καὶ ὁρμητήρια ἤδη κατεσκευάσθαι, τὰ πλοῖα τὰ μὲν ἐν Φοινίκῃ τε καὶ Κύπρῳ ναυπηγησάμενον διάλυτά τε καὶ γομφωτά, ἃ κομισθέντα εἰσ Θάψακον σταθμοῖσ ἑπτὰ εἶτα τῷ ποταμῷ κατακομισθῆναι μέχρι Βαβυλῶνοσ, τὰ δ’ ἐν τῇ Βαβυλωνίᾳ συμπηξάμενον τῶν ἐν τοῖσ ἄλσεσι καὶ τοῖσ παραδείσοισ κυπαρίττων· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 22:5)

Synonyms

  1. a dissolver

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

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