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ἑλικτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑλικτός ἑλικτή ἑλικτόν

Structure: ἑλικτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e(li/ssw

Sense

  1. curved, twisted, wreathed, wheeled, moving quickly
  2. tortuous

Examples

  • καὶ ὁ πυλὼν τῆσ πλευρᾶσ τῆσ ὑποκάτωθεν ὑπὸ τὴν ὠμίαν τοῦ οἴκου τὴν δεξιάν, καὶ ἑλικτὴ ἀνάβασισ εἰσ τὸ μέσον καὶ ἐκ τῆσ μέσησ ἐπὶ τὰ τριώροφα, (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 6:12)
  • "μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο αἴθριον ἐξεδέχετο τὴν ἐπάνω τῆσ ὑποκειμένησ προστάδοσ τάξιν κατέχον ᾧ κλῖμάξ τε ἑλικτὴ φέρουσα πρὸσ τὸν κρυπτὸν περίπατον παρέκειτο καὶ συμπόσιον ἐννεάκλινον, τῇ διαθέσει τῆσ κατασκευῆσ Αἰγύπτιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3737)

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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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