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κεραυνόβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραυνόβολος κεραυνόβολη κεραυνόβολον

Structure: κεραυνοβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ba/llw

Sense

  1. thunder-stricken

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • γενομένου γὰρ ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσι κεραυνοβόλου δένδρου καὶ τῆσ πλησίον ὕλησ καομένησ προσελθόντα τὸν Ἥφαιστον κατὰ τὴν χειμέριον ὡρ́αν ἡσθῆναι διαφερόντωσ ἐπὶ τῇ θερμασίᾳ, λήγοντοσ δὲ τοῦ πυρὸσ ἀεὶ τῆσ ὕλησ ἐπιβάλλειν, καὶ τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ διατηροῦντα τὸ πῦρ προκαλεῖσθαι τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἀνθρώπουσ πρὸσ τὴν ἐξ αὐτοῦ γινομένην εὐχρηστίαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 13 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. thunder-stricken

Derived

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

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