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γεγωνός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γεγωνός

Structure: γεγων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from gegwnw/s, part. of ge/gwna

Sense

  1. loud-sounding, loud of voice

Examples

  • σὺ μέν νυν, σύγγον’ Ἠλέκτρα, δόμων πάροσ μένουσα παρθένου δέχου πόδα, φύλασσε δ’ ἤν τισ, πρὶν τελευτηθῇ φόνοσ, ἢ ξύμμαχόσ τισ ἢ κασίγνητοσ πατρόσ, ἐλθὼν ἐσ οἴκουσ φθῇ, γέγωνέ τ’ ἐσ δόμουσ, ἢ σανίδα παίσασ’ ἢ λόγουσ πέμψασ’ ἔσω· (Euripides, episode, anapests 6:9)
  • χρυσίδι σπένδων γέγωνε τοῖσ ὄφεσι πιεῖν διδούσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 105 1:3)
  • καὶ τῇδε μὲν γέγωνε τὴν λοιπὴν πλάνην, ἐμοὶ δὲ τὸν λύσοντα· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 4:4)
  • γέγωνέ μοι πᾶν τοῦθ’, ὅπωσ εἰδῶ τίσ εἶ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode15)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε τόσσον ἀπῆν ὅσσον τε γέγωνε βοήσασ, καὶ δὴ δοῦπον ἄκουσε ποτὶ σπιλάδεσσι θαλάσσησ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 42:5)

Synonyms

  1. loud-sounding

Related

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

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