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εὔπεπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔπεπτος εὔπεπτον

Structure: εὐπεπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/ssw

Sense

  1. easy of digestion

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ σκάροσ ἁπαλόσαρκοσ , ψαθυρόσ, γλυκύσ, κοῦφοσ, εὔπεπτοσ, εὐανάδοτοσ, εὐκοίλιοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 51 3:3)
  • καὶ ὁ κόραξ ἱέρακοσ σκληρότεροσ, οὐρανοσκόποσ δὲ καὶ ὁ ἁγνὸσ καλούμενοσ ἢ καὶ καλλιώνυμοσ βαρεῖσ, βῶξ δὲ ἑφθὸσ εὔπεπτοσ, εὐανάδοτοσ, ὑγρὸν ἀνιείσ, εὐκοίλιοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 52 2:7)
  • καὶ αὐτὴ τῶν σελαχίων οὖσα, εὔπεπτόσ ἐστι καὶ κούφη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 2:3)
  • κοινῶσ δὲ πάντα τὰ σελάχια φυσώδη ἐστὶ καὶ κρεώδη καὶ δυσκατέργαστα πλεοναζόμενά τε τὰσ ὄψεισ ἀμβλύνει, ἡ δὲ σηπία καὶ ἑψομένη μὲν ἁπαλὴ καὶ εὔστομοσ καὶ εὔπεπτοσ, ἔτι δ’ εὐκοίλιοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 2:5)
  • "εὔχυλοσ γὰρ καὶ εὐστόμαχοσ καὶ εὔπεπτοσ καὶ πρὸσ ἀνάδοσιν ῥᾷστοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 8314)

Synonyms

  1. easy of digestion

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

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