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καλλίμορφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλλίμορφος καλλίμορφον

Structure: καλλιμορφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: morfh/

Sense

  1. beautifully shaped or formed

Examples

  • χορὸσ δὲ καλλίμορφοσ εἱστήκει τέκνων πατήρ τε Μεγάρα τ’· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 1:2)
  • "Καλλιμόρφου ἰατροῦ τῆσ τῶν κοντοφόρων ἕκτησ ἱστοριῶν Παρθικῶν· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 164)
  • ἡ Κύπροσ ἔχει πελείασ διαφόρουσ, ἡ δ’ ἐν Σάμῳ Ἥρα τὸ χρυσοῦν, φασίν, ὀρνίθων γένοσ, τοὺσ καλλιμόρφουσ καὶ περιβλέπτουσ ταὧσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 70 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. beautifully shaped or formed

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

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