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κραναήπεδος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κραναήπεδος κραναήπεδον

Structure: κραναηπεδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/don

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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