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δισύλλαβος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δισύλλαβος δισύλλαβον

Structure: δισυλλαβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sullabh/

Sense

  1. of two syllables

Examples

  • ὁ τὴν καταφορὰν δηλῶν τοῦ πέτρου στίχοσ μονοσύλλαβον μὲν οὐδεμίαν, δισυλλάβουσ δὲ δύο μόνασ ἔχει λέξεισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2043)
  • φιλόγελωσ δὲ ἦν καὶ Δημήτριοσ ὁ Πολιορκητήσ, ὥσ φησι Φύλαρχοσ ἐν τῇ σ’ τῶν Ἱστοριῶν, ὅσ γε καὶ τὴν Λυσιμάχου αὐλὴν κωμικῆσ σκηνῆσ οὐδὲν διαφέρειν ἔλεγεν ἐξιέναι γὰρ ἀπ’ αὐτῆσ πάντασ δισυλλάβουσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 3 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. of two syllables

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

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