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δριμύτης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δριμύτης δριμύτες

Structure: δριμυτη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from dri_mu/s

Sense

  1. pungency, keenness, vehemence

Examples

  • τήν τε γὰρ ὄρεξιν ἡ δριμύτησ ἐκκαλεῖται καὶ τοὺσ πόρουσ ἀναστομοῦσα μᾶλλον ὁδοποιεῖ τῇ τροφῇ πρὸσ τὴν ἀνάδοσιν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 3 1:2)
  • ἡ δ’ ἄρκτοσ, ὅταν ἐκ τοῦ φωλεοῦ προέλθῃ, τὸ ἄρον ἐσθίουσα πρῶτον τὸ ἄγριον ἡ γὰρ δριμύτησ ἀνοίγει συμπεφυκὸσ αὐτῆσ τὸ ἔντερον· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 20 3:2)
  • τὴν δὲ πλείστην αἰτίαν καὶ δύναμιν ἡ δριμύτησ εἶχε· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 3:1)

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

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