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ἰσομήκης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰσομήκης ἰσομήκες

Structure: ἰσομηκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mh=kos

Sense

  1. equal in length

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἰσομήκης ἰσόμηκες
Genitive ἰσομήκους ἰσομήκους
Dative ἰσομήκει ἰσομήκει
Accusative ἰσομήκη ἰσόμηκες
Vocative ἰσομῆκες ἰσόμηκες
DualN/A/V ἰσομήκει ἰσομήκει
G/D ἰσομήκοιν ἰσομήκοιν
PluralNominative ἰσομήκεις ἰσομήκη
Genitive ἰσομήκων ἰσομήκων
Dative ἰσομήκεσιν* ἰσομήκεσιν*
Accusative ἰσομήκεις ἰσομήκη
Vocative ἰσομήκεις ἰσομήκη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἰσομήκης ἰσομήκους ἰσομηκέστερος ἰσομηκεστέρου ἰσομηκέστατος ἰσομηκεστάτου
Adverb ἰσομηκέως ἰσομηκέστερον ἰσομηκέστατα

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

  • ὁπλίσιοσ δὲ τῆσ Ἰνδῶν οὐκ ὡυτὸσ εἷσ τρόποσ, ἀλλὰ οἱ μὲν πεζοὶ αὐτοῖσι τόξον τε ἔχουσιν, ἰσόμηκεσ τῷ φορέοντι τὸ τόξον, καὶ τοῦτο κάτω ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν θέντεσ καὶ τῷ ποδὶ τῷ ἀριστερῷ ἀντιβάντεσ, οὕτωσ ἐκτοξεύουσι, τὴν νευρὴν ἐπὶ μέγα ὀπίσω ἀπαγαγόντεσ· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 16 6:1)
  • πρὸ δὲ τούτων ἰσόμηκεσ καταπέτασμα πέπλοσ ἦν Βαβυλώνιοσ ποικιλτὸσ ἐξ ὑακίνθου καὶ βύσσου κόκκου τε καὶ πορφύρασ, θαυμαστῶσ μὲν εἰργασμένοσ, οὐκ ἀθεώρητον δὲ τῆσ ὕλησ τὴν κρᾶσιν ἔχων, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ εἰκόνα τῶν ὅλων· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 241:1)

Synonyms

  1. equal in length

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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