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δρακόντειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δρακόντειος δρακόντειον

Structure: δρακοντει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dra/kwn

Sense

  1. of a dragon

Examples

  • ὃν ἄρτι κρημνῶν ἐκ δρακοντείων ἑλὼν αὐτοσφαγῆ δύστηνοσ ἐκόμισ’ ἐν χεροῖν, βοᾷ δὲ δῶμα πᾶν· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:4)
  • βινεῖν δύνανται, τῶν Δρακοντείων νόμων ὁπόταν ἀναμνησθῶσι προσκινούμενοι; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 24 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. of a dragon

Related

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

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