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κοντοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοντοφόρος κοντοφόρον

Structure: κοντοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. carrying a pole or pike

Examples

  • καὶ αἱ μὲν πρῶται τέσσαρεσ τάξεισ ἔστων κοντοφόρων, ὧν δὴ τοῖσ κοντοῖσ μακρὰ καὶ ἐπίλεπτα τὰ σιδήρια προῆκται. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 22:2)
  • "Καλλιμόρφου ἰατροῦ τῆσ τῶν κοντοφόρων ἕκτησ ἱστοριῶν Παρθικῶν· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 164)

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

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