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καρδιόδηκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καρδιόδηκτος καρδιόδηκτον

Structure: καρδιοδηκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: da/knw

Sense

  1. gnawing the heart

Examples

  • δαῖμον, ὃσ ἐμπίτνεισ δώμασι καὶ διφυί‐ οισι Τανταλίδαισιν, κράτοσ <τ’> ἰσόψυχον ἐκ γυναικῶν καρδιόδηκτον ἐμοὶ κρατύνεισ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 1 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. gnawing the heart

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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