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ἡμίτομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμίτομος ἡμίτομον

Structure: ἡμιτομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/mnw

Sense

  1. half cut through, cut in two

Examples

  • τό τε γιγνόμενον ἐξέπληττε τὴν στρατιὰν τοῦ Νικομήδουσ, ὅτε ἴδοιεν ἡμιτόμουσ ἄνδρασ ἔτι ἔμπνουσ, ἢ ἐσ πολλὰ διερριμμένουσ, ἢ τῶν δρεπάνων ἀπηρτημένουσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3 4:11)

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

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