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καύσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καύσιμος καύσιμον

Structure: καυσιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kai/w

Sense

  1. fit for burning, combustible

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ ἱππεῖσ σπειρόμενοι ἐφ’ ὅσον καλῶσ εἶχεν ἔκαιον, καὶ οἱ πελτασταὶ ἐπιπαριόντεσ κατὰ τὰ ἄκρα ἔκαιον πάντα ὅσα καύσιμα ἑώρων, καὶ ἡ στρατιὰ δέ, εἴ τινι παραλειπομένῳ ἐντυγχάνοιεν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. fit for burning

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

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