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φυκτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυκτός φυκτή φυκτόν

Structure: φυκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: older form of feukto/s

Sense

  1. to be shunned or escaped, avoidable

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ οὐ φυκτὰ κέλευθα, πόνοσ δ’ ἄπρηκτοσ ἰοῦσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 5:21)
  • καὶ τότε δὴ γίγνωσκον, ὅ τ’ οὐκέτι φυκτὰ πέλοντο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 32:4)
  • νῦν δ’ οὐκέτι φυκτὰ πέλονται. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 41:4)
  • μὴ δὴ νῆασ ἕλωσι καὶ οὐκέτι φυκτὰ πέλωνται· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 10:11)

Synonyms

  1. to be shunned or escaped

Derived

Similar forms

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

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