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κοινόλεκτρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοινόλεκτρος κοινόλεκτρον

Structure: κοινολεκτρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/ktron

Sense

  1. having a common bed, a bedfellow, consort

Examples

  • τὸ διαμφίδιον δέ μοι μέλοσ προσέπτα τόδ’ ἐκεῖνό θ’, ὅ τ’ ἀμφὶ λουτρὰ καὶ λέχοσ σὸν ὑμεναίουν ἰότατι γάμων, ὅτε τὰν ὁμοπάτριον ἕδνοισ ἄγαγεσ Ἡσιόναν πείθὼν δάμαρτα κοινόλεκτρον. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, antistrophe 22)

Synonyms

  1. having a common bed

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

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