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κραιπαλόκωμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κραιπαλόκωμος κραιπαλόκωμον

Structure: κραιπαλοκωμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. rambling in drunken revelry

Examples

  • λιμναῖα κρηνῶν τέκνα, ξύναυλον ὕμνων βοὰν φθεγξώμεθ’, εὔγηρυν ἐμὰν ἀοιδάν, κοὰξ κοάξ, ἣν ἀμφὶ Νυσήιον Διὸσ Διόνυσον ἐν Λίμναισιν ἰαχήσαμεν, ἡνίχ’ ὁ κραιπαλόκωμοσ τοῖσ ἱεροῖσι Χύτροισι χωρεῖ κατ’ ἐμὸν τέμενοσ λαῶν ὄχλοσ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue, trochees2)

Similar forms

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

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