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κύντερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύντερος κύντερᾱ κύντερον

Structure: κυντερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: comp. adj. formed from ku/wn

Sense

  1. more dog-like, more shameless, more audacious, more horrible
  2. most audacious

Examples

  • οἱ δ’ ἄχεϊ σχόμενοι τὰσ μὲν λίπον, ἄλλα δ’ ὄπαζον κύντερα μιξοδίῃσιν ἁλὸσ ῥαιστήρια νηῶν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 15:18)
  • θεὸσ δ’ ἔτι κύντερα θήσει<πάγχυ> μάλ’, οἳ ναίουσι παρ’ ἠϊόνεσσι θαλάσσησ ‐ εἰσ ὀλίγον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 15 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. most audacious

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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