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διώδυνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διώδυνος διώδυνον

Structure: διωδυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)du/nh

Sense

  1. with thrilling anguish

Examples

  • κἀκεῖνοσ ὡσ ἤκουσε καὶ διώδυνοσ σπαραγμὸσ αὐτοῦ πλευμόνων ἀνθήψατο, μάρψασ ποδόσ νιν, ἄρθρον ᾗ λυγίζεται, ῥιπτεῖ πρὸσ ἀμφίκλυστον ἐκ πόντου πέτραν· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 4:13)

Similar forms

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

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