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ἐπιτυμβίδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτυμβίδιος ἐπιτυμβίδιᾱ ἐπιτυμβίδιον

Structure: ἐπιτυμβιδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tu/mbos

Sense

  1. at or over a tomb
  2. crested, larks

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀντὶ δὲ θρήνων ἐπιτυμβιδίων παιὰν μελάθροισ ἐν βασιλείοισ νεοκρᾶτα φίλον κομίσειεν. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, anapests2)
  • "Σιμιχίδα, πᾷ δὴ τὸ μεσαμέριον πόδασ ἕλκεισ, ἁνίκα δὴ καὶ σαῦροσ ἐν αἱμασιαῖσι καθεύδει, οὐδ’ ἐπιτυμβίδιαι κορυδαλλίδεσ ἠλαίνοντι; (Theocritus, Idylls, 7)
  • Γρηγορίου τόδε σοι γράμμ’ ἐπιτυμβίδιον, μῦθοσ ὅδ’ ὃν φιλέεσκεσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 112)
  • ἠνίδ’ ἑταίρων σῶν ἑνόσ, ὦ φιλότησ, γράμμ’ ἐπιτυμβίδιον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 132 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. at or over a tomb

  2. crested

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

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