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ἡμιδαής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιδαής ἡμιδαές

Structure: ἡμιδαη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: dai/w

Sense

  1. half-divided, half-mangled

Examples

  • ἔνθα ποτ’ αἰθαλόεντι τυπεὶσ πρὸσ στέρνα κεραυνῷ ἡμιδαὴσ Φαέθων πέσεν ἁρ́ματοσ Ηἐλίοιο λίμνησ ἐσ προχοὰσ πολυβενθέοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 10:23)
  • ἡμιδαὴσ δ’ ἄρα νηῦσ λίπετ’ αὐτόθι· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 23:6)

Synonyms

  1. half-divided

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

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