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ἐμπέραμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμπέραμος ἐμπέραμον

Structure: ἐμπεραμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = e)/mpeiros,

Sense

  1. skilled in the use of

Examples

  • ἔδοξέ τε δὴ λέγειν πιστὰ καὶ ἡγεῖτο Ἐμπεράμῳ καὶ τοῖσ Σπαρτιάταισ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 2:1)
  • τῷ τε οὖν Ἐμπεράμῳ καὶ Σπαρτιατῶν τοῖσ παροῦσι διεῖναι τοὺσ Μεσσηνίουσ ἤρεσκε μηδὲ λυσσῶντασ ἀνθρώπουσ καὶ ἐσ τὸ ἔσχατον ἀπονοίασ ἥκοντασ ἐξαγριᾶναι πέρα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 16:3)

Synonyms

  1. skilled in the use of

Related

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

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