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δίπυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίπυλος δίπυλον

Structure: διπυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu/lh

Sense

  1. double-gated, with two entrances

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἡ δ̓ ἄλλο μὲν οὐδὲν εὑρ͂ε, τοῦτο δὲ μόνον ἐπιγεγραμμένον ἐσιόντων ἐπὶ τὰ δεξιὰ πρὸσ τῷ Διπύλῳ, Μέλιττα φιλεῖ Ἑρμότιμον, καὶ μικρὸν αὖθισ ὑποκάτω, Ὁ ναύκληροσ Ἑρμότιμοσ φιλεῖ Μέλιτταν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:5)

Synonyms

  1. double-gated

Related

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

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