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ἐπικαμπής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικαμπής ἐπικαμπές

Structure: ἐπικαμπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pika/mptw

Sense

  1. curved, curling

Examples

  • παρὰ γὰρ τὰσ ἀλλαχόθεν καὶ ἐπιμήκεισ εἰσὶ καὶ κατὰ τὸ ἄκρον ἐπικαμπεῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 39 1:3)
  • τοῦ Πολυνείκουσ δὲ ὄπισθεν <γυνὴ> ἕστηκεν ὀδόντασ τε ἔχουσα οὐδὲν ἡμερωτέρουσ θηρίου καί οἱ τῶν χειρῶν εἰσιν ἐπικαμπεῖσ οἱ ὄνυχεσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. curved

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

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