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δορκαλίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δορκαλίς δορκαλίδος

Etym.: = dorka/s, Anth.

Sense

  1. made of the vertebrae of an antelope

Examples

  • Ὡγρευτήσ, Ἐπίκυδεσ, ἐν οὔρεσι πάντα λαγωὸν διφᾷ, καὶ πάσησ ἴχνια δορκαλίδοσ, στίβῃ καὶ νιφετῷ κεχρημένοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1021)
  • ἀλλά με θεσμοὶ εἴργουσιν ῥαδινῆσ τηλόθι δορκαλίδοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 292 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. made of the vertebrae of an antelope

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

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