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κωλυτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωλυτικός κωλυτική κωλυτικόν

Structure: κωλυτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kwlu/w

Sense

  1. preventive

Examples

  • ἐστὶν αὐτοκινήτου φορᾶσ δηλωτικὸν ὁ δὲ Τυφών, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, Σὴθ καὶ Βέβων καὶ Σμὺ ὀνομάζεται, βίαιόν τινα καὶ κωλυτικὴν ἐπίσχεσιν, ὑπεναντίωσιν ἢ ἀναστροφὴν ἐμφαίνειν βουλομένων τῶν ὀνομάτων. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 62 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. preventive

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

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