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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 πέπων δ’ ἐστὶν εὐκαρδιώτεροσ καὶ εὐπεπτότεροσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 78 2:1)
  • ἢν μὲν στόμαχοσ ἀπεπτέῃ, τόδε παρέχειν · ἢν δὲ μηδὲν ὅδε προσαναγκάζῃ, πάντων ἐστὶ πτισάνη κρέσσων · ἔξεστι δὲ τὴν πτισάνην ἐσ χόνδρον ἀλλάξαι · ἀφυσότεροσ γὰρ, καὶ εὐπεπτότεροσ καὶ σμηγματώδησ ἢν ὡσ πτισάνη πτίσθῃ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 234)

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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