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δίστομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίστομος δίστομον

Structure: διστομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sto/ma

Sense

  1. double-mouthed, with two entrances, branching
  2. two-edged

Examples

  • ὡσ ρομφαία δίστομοσ πᾶσα ἀνομία, τῇ πληγῇ αὐτῆσ οὐκ ἔστιν ἴασισ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 21:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἔργον ἤδη σὸν τὰ λοίφ’ ὑπηρετεῖν σκοπεῖν θ’ ὅπου ’στ’ ἐνταῦθα δίστομοσ πέτρα τοιάδ’, ἵν’ ἐν ψύχει μὲν ἡλίου διπλῆ πάρεστιν ἐνθάκησισ, ἐν θέρει δ’ ὕπνον δι’ ἀμφιτρῆτοσ αὐλίου πέμπει πνοή· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 1:5)
  • καὶ ἔχων ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ ἀστέρασ ἑπτά, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ στόματοσ αὐτοῦ ῥομφαία δίστομοσ ὀξεῖα ἐκπορευομένη, καὶ ἡ ὄψισ αὐτοῦ ὡσ ὁ ἥλιοσ φαίνει ἐν τῇ δυνάμει αὐτοῦ. (APOKALUYIS IWANOU, chapter 1 20:1)
  • εἶθ’ οἱ τῶν ἀναχύσεων τῶν ἄλλων ἀνάπλοι, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ὁ Ἄνασ ποταμόσ, δίστομοσ καὶ οὗτοσ, καὶ ὁ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀνάπλουσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 1 18:8)
  • Ὁ δὲ Ἰνδὸσ ποταμὸσ ὅτι μέγιστοσ ποταμῶν ἐστι τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν τε καὶ τὴν Εὐρώπην, πλὴν Γάγγου, καὶ τούτου Ἰνδοῦ ποταμοῦ, καὶ ὅτι αἱ πηγαί εἰσιν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ τάδε τοῦ ὄρουσ τοῦ Παραπαμίσου ἤ Καυκάσου, καὶ ὅτι ἐκδίδωσιν ἐσ τὴν μεγάλην θάλασσαν τὴν κατὰ Ἰνδοὺσ ὡσ ἐπὶ νότον ἄνεμον, καὶ ὅτι δίστομόσ ἐστιν ὁ Ἰνδὸσ καὶ αἱ ἐκβολαὶ αὐτοῦ ἀμφότεραι τεναγώδεισ, καθάπερ αἱ πέντε τοῦ Ἴστρου, καὶ ὅτι Δέλτα ποιεῖ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐν τῇ Ἰνδῶν γῇ τῷ Αἰγυπτίῳ Δέλτα παραπλήσιον καὶ τοῦτο Πάταλα καλεῖται τῇ Ἰνδῶν φωνῇ, ταῦτα μὲν ὑπὲρ τοῦ Ἰνδοῦ τὰ μάλιστα οὐκ ἀμφίλογα καὶ ἐμοὶ ἀναγεγράφθω. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 4 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. double-mouthed

  2. two-edged

Related

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

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