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ἱερόγλωσσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱερόγλωσσος ἱερόγλωσσον

Structure: ἱερογλωσς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: glw=ssa

Sense

  1. of prophetic tongue

Examples

  • εἶναι δὲ καὶ μάντισ ὁ Ἐπέραστοσ τοῦ Κλυτιδῶν γένουσ φησὶν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐπιγράμματοσ τῇ τελευτῇ,τῶν δ’ ἱερογλώσσων Κλυτιδᾶν γένοσ εὔχομαι εἶναιμάντισ, ἀπ’ ἰσοθέων αἷμα Μελαμποδιδᾶν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. of prophetic tongue

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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