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δικλίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δικλίς δικλίδος

Structure: δικλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kli/nw

Sense

  1. double-folding

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

  • τῇ δ’ ἐπὶ πολλαὶ δικλίδεσ εὐπηγεῖσ θάλαμοί τ’ ἔσαν ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 4:41)
  • κληισταὶ δ’ ἔπεσαν σανίδεσ πυκινῶσ ἀραρυῖαι, δικλίδεσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 2 34:3)
  • ἐξ ἑτέρων ἕτερ’ ἐστίν, ἐπήσκηται δέ οἱ αὐλὴ τοίχῳ καὶ θριγκοῖσι, θύραι δ’ εὐερκέεσ εἰσὶ δικλίδεσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 38:2)
  • θύραι δ’ εὐεργέεσ εἰσὶ δίκλιδεσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 53:4)

Synonyms

  1. double-folding

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

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