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κραιπνόσυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κραιπνόσυτος κραιπνόσυτον

Structure: κραιπνοσυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: seu/omai

Sense

  1. swift-rushing

Examples

  • καὶ νῦν ἐλαφρῷ ποδὶ κραιπνόσυτον θᾶκον προλιποῦσ’, αἰθέρα θ’ ἁγνὸν πόρον οἰωνῶν, ὀκριοέσσῃ χθονὶ τῇδε πελῶ, τοὺσ σοὺσ δὲ πόνουσ χρῄζω διὰ παντὸσ ἀκοῦσαι. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests2)

Synonyms

  1. swift-rushing

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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