Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ἱερογλυφικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱερογλυφικός ἱερογλυφική ἱερογλυφικόν

Structure: ἱερογλυφικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hieroglyphic;, a way of writing on monuments

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • περὶ δὲ τῶν Αἰθιοπικῶν γραμμάτων τῶν παρ’ Αἰγυπτίοισ καλουμένων ἱερογλυφικῶν ῥητέον, ἵνα μηδὲν παραλίπωμεν τῶν ἀρχαιολογουμένων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 4 1:1)

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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