Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔκτυπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκτυπος ἔκτυπον

Structure: ἐκτυπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. worked in high relief, a figure worked in relief, a cameo

Examples

  • τὴν δὲ κεφαλὴν βυσσίνη μὲν ἔσκεπεν τιάρα, κατέστεπτο δ’ ὑακίνθῳ, περὶ ἣν χρυσοῦσ ἄλλοσ ἦν στέφανοσ ἔκτυπα φέρων τὰ ἱερὰ γράμματα· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 267:1)

Related

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

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