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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

  • ἦσαν δέ τινεσ αὐτοῖσ καὶ τῶν εἰσ τοὺσ ἀγροὺσ φερουσῶν ὁδῶν κατάστεγοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 17 1:3)
  • τοῦ γὰρ δυώδεκα μὲν εἰσὶ αὐλαὶ κατάστεγοι, ἀντίπυλοι ἀλλήλῃσι, ἓξ μὲν πρὸσ βορέω ἓξ δὲ πρὸσ νότον τετραμμέναι, συνεχέεσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 148 5:1)
  • ὦ κρῆναι, καὶ θέατρα, καὶ στενωποὶ, καὶ δρόμοι κατάστεγοι καὶ ὕπαιθροι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:10)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ ὡσ πρὸσ τὰσ χελώνασ τὰσ χωστρίδασ ἐπεποίηντο σύριγγεσ κατάστεγοι χάριν τοῦ μήτε τοὺσ προσιόντασ ἐκ τῆσ στρατοπεδείασ μήτε τοὺσ ἀπιόντασ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων βλάπτεσθαι μηδὲν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ βελῶν. (Polybius, Histories, book 9, chapter 41 9:1)

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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