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ἔμμητρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμμητρος ἔμμητρον

Structure: ἐμμητρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, mh/tra

Sense

  1. with pith in it

Examples

  • ἦν δὲ ὁ Καλλιμέδων καὶ ἐπὶ ὀψοφαγίᾳ διαβόητοσ, μνημονεύει τῆσ μήτρασ καὶ Ἀντιφάνησ ἐν Φιλομήτορι οὕτωσ ἔμμητρον ἂν ᾖ τὸ ξύλον, βλάστην ἔχει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 57 1:2)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ κέρασ ὑγρὸν ἑλὼν κοίλην τε φαρέτρην ἰῶν ἐμπλείην νεόμην, ἑτέρηφι δὲ βάκτρον εὐπαγὲσ αὐτόφλοιον ἐπηρεφέοσ κοτίνοιο ἔμμητρον, τὸ μὲν αὐτὸσ ὑπὸ ζαθέῳ Ἑλικῶνι εὑρὼν σὺν πυκινῇσιν ὁλοσχερὲσ ἔσπασα ῥίζαισ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 88)

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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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