Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δισύλλαβος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δισύλλαβος δισύλλαβον

Structure: δισυλλαβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sullabh/

Sense

  1. of two syllables

Examples

  • 857 τὸ τετράμετρον δακτυλικὸν εἰσ δισύλλαβον καταληκτικόν, ᾧ πρῶτοσ μὲν ἐχρήσατο Ἀρχίλοχοσ ἐν Ἐπῳδοῖσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 426)
  • οὐ λανθάνει δὲ τὴν δισύλλαβον Δίκην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3582)

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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