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διφυής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διφυής διφυές

Structure: διφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fuh/

Sense

  1. of double form

Declension

Third 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

  • "διὸ καὶ ἔδοξέ τισιν διφυὴσ νομισθῆναι, οὐκ εἰδότων τῶν πρότερον διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ τὸν πατέρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 2 1:4)
  • ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ Κρόνου καὶ Φιλύρασ Χείρων διφυὴσ Κένταυροσ, Ηοὖσ δὲ καὶ Ἀστραίου ἄνεμοι καὶ ἄστρα, Πέρσου δὲ καὶ Ἀστερίασ Ἑκάτη, Πάλλαντοσ δὲ καὶ Στυγὸσ Νίκη Κράτοσ Ζῆλοσ Βία. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 2 4:1)
  • ὀρθῶσ ἄρ’ <ἂν> ὁ πᾶν μηνύων καὶ ἀεὶ πολῶν "Πὰν αἰπόλοσ" εἰή, διφυὴσ Ἑρμοῦ ὑόσ, τὰ μὲν ἄνωθεν λεῖοσ, τὰ δὲ κάτωθεν τραχὺσ καὶ τραγοειδήσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 151:7)
  • διφυοῦσ δ’ αὐτοῦ γεγονότοσ, τοὺσ μὲν Ἀθηναίουσ μὴ δύνασθαι κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν ὑπόστασιν ἀποδοῦναι περὶ τῆσ φύσεωσ ταύτησ τὰσ ἀληθεῖσ αἰτίασ, ἐν μέσῳ κειμένου πᾶσιν ὅτι δυοῖν πολιτειῶν μετασχών, Ἑλληνικῆσ καὶ βαρβάρου, διφυὴσ ἐνομίσθη, τὸ μὲν ἔχων μέροσ θηρίου, τὸ δὲ ἀνθρώπου. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 28 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. of double form

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

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