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κατάκρημνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάκρημνος κατάκρημνη κατάκρημνον

Structure: κατακρημν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. steep and rugged

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • Μιθριδάτησ δὲ μετὰ τῶν ὑπασπιστῶν μόνων ὠσάμενοσ ἐσ τὰ κατάκρημνα καὶ διαφυγὼν ἐνέτυχέ τισιν ἱππεῦσι μισθοφόροισ καὶ πεζοῖσ ὡσ τρισχιλίοισ, οἳ εὐθὺσ αὐτῷ συνείμοντο ἐσ Σινόρηγα φρούριον, ἔνθα αὐτῷ χρήματα πολλὰ ἐσεσώρευτο· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 15 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. steep and rugged

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

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