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κατάστεγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάστεγος κατάστεγον

Structure: καταστεγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ste/gh

Sense

  1. covered in, roofed

Examples

  • "ἧσ ἐν τῷ καταντικρὺ τῆσ πρῴρασ μέρει προπύλαιον κατεσκεύαστο δι’ ἐλέφαντοσ καὶ τῆσ πολυτελεστάτησ ὕλησ γεγονόσ, τοῦτο δὲ διελθοῦσιν ὡσανεὶ προσκήνιον ἐπεποίητο τῇ διαθέσει κατάστεγον ὄν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3723)

Synonyms

  1. covered in

Related

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

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