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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

  • διαβρόχουσ, μυδαλέα δάκρυσι, καὶ μυδάλεον δίυγρον, παρὰ Ἀρχιλόχῳ διάβροχον, λέγει δὲ τὸ ἐρίδακρυ καὶ κάθυγρον ὄμμα, τὸ ἐννότερον, ῥυπαρόν οἱ δὲ μύκλουσ φασὶ τοὺσ κατωφερεῖσ πρὸσ γυναῖκασ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown178)

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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