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δουράτεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δουράτεος δουράτεᾱ δουράτεον

Structure: δουρατε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: do/ru

Sense

  1. of planks or beams of wood, wooden

Examples

  • δουράτεον σκύφοσ εὐρὺ μελιζώροιο ποτοῖο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 99 4:12)
  • αἶσα γὰρ ἦν ἀπολέσθαι, ἐπὴν πόλισ ἀμφικαλύψῃ δουράτεον μέγαν ἵππον, ὅθ’ ἡάτο πάντεσ ἄριστοι Ἀργείων Τρώεσσι φόνον καὶ κῆρα φέροντεσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 69:5)

Synonyms

  1. of planks or beams of wood

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

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