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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

  • τέκνον, ὤμοι, τί γεγώνω; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, epode7)
  • ὡσ δὲ παρῆλθον οἱ πεμφθέντεσ εἰσ τὸν νεών, καί τισ ἐξ αὐτῶν εἴτε μετὰ παιδιᾶσ καὶ γέλωτοσ εἴτε οἰωνοῦ δεόμενοσ, εἰ βούλοιτο μετελθεῖν εἰσ Ῥώμην ἡ θεόσ, ἤρετο, φωνῇ γεγωνῷ τὸ ξόανον ἐφθέγξατο, ὅτι βούλεται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 13, chapter 3 3:1)

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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