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δίθυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίθυρος δίθυρον

Structure: διθυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

Sense

  1. with two doors, with two leaves

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

  • "ἐστὶ δ’ ὁ μὲν κτεὶσ τραχυόστρακοσ, ῥαβδωτόσ, τὸ δὲ τῆθοσ ἀράβδωτον, λειόστρακον, ἡ δὲ πίνη λεπτόστομον, τὸ δὲ ὄστρεον παχύστομον, δίθυρον δὲ καὶ τραχυόστρακον, λεπὰσ δὲ μονόθυρον καὶ λειόστρακον, συμφυὲσ δὲ μῦσ, μονοφυὲσ δὲ καὶ λειόστρακον σωλὴν καὶ βάλανοσ, κοινὸν δ’ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν κόγχη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 35 2:2)
  • ἔστι δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ νεὼσ ἐν Ῥώμῃ δίθυροσ, ὃν πολέμου πύλην καλοῦσι. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 20 1:1)
  • ὅτε καὶ συνεπιθέμενοί τινεσ τῶν φυγάδων μικροῦ κατέλευσαν τὸν Ἰσμηνίαν, εἰ μὴ κατέφυγεν ὑπὸ τὰ δίθυρα τῶν Ῥωμαίων. (Polybius, Histories, book 27, a. olymp. 152, 1. i. bellum persicum 6:1)

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

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