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ἰσόπεδος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰσόπεδος ἰσόπεδον

Structure: ἰσοπεδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/don

Sense

  1. of even surface, level or even with

Examples

  • μεγάλασ γὰρ ἐγχώσασ φάραγγασ, ἃσ διὰ βάθοσ ἄπειρον οὐδὲ ἀπόνωσ ἐννεύσαντασ ἦν ἰδεῖν, καὶ ἀναβιβάσασ εἰσ τετρακοσίουσ πήχεισ τὸ ὕψοσ ἰσοπέδουσ τῇ κορυφῇ τοῦ ὄρουσ ἐφ’ ἧσ ὁ ναὸσ ᾠκοδόμητο κατεσκεύασε· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 123:2)

Synonyms

  1. of even surface

Related

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

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