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κραναήπεδος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: kranaēpedos

Principal Part: κραναήπεδος κραναήπεδον

Structure: κραναηπεδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πέδον

Sense

  1. with hard rocky soil

Examples

  • τῷ ῥ αἰνῶς δείδοικα κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν, μή, ὁπότ ἂν τὸ πρῶτον ἴδῃ φάος ἠελίοιο, νῆσον ἀτιμήσας, ἐπεὶ ἦ κραναήπεδός εἰμι, ποσσὶ καταστρέψας ὤσῃ ἁλὸς ἐν πελάγεσσιν, ἔνθ ἐμὲ μὲν μέγα κῦμα κατὰ κρατὸς ἅλις αἰεὶ κλύσσει: (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , part 5:6)

Synonyms

  1. with hard rocky soil

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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