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κατωφερής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατωφερής κατωφερές

Structure: κατωφερη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = ka/tw fero/menos

Sense

  1. sunken

Examples

  • καὶ ἐὰν μὲν ᾖ τὸ χωρίον κατωφερὲσ ἐν ᾧ ἂν ἔχῃ αὐτὸν ἡ ἄρκυσ, ταχὺ ἐξαναστήσεται· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 10:5)
  • κατωφερὲσ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ πεδίον, ὡσ ἐπιδέξιον μὲν εἶναι τοῖσ ἄνωθεν ὁρμῶσιν ἐκ τῶν Φιλίππων, ἄναντεσ δὲ τοῖσ ἐξ Ἀμφιπόλεωσ βιαζομένοισ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 13 4:8)

Synonyms

  1. sunken

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

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