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λακιστός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λακιστός λακιστή λακιστόν

Structure: λακιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: laki/zw

Sense

  1. torn, by rending

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν ἄριστον ἦν καθάπερ τινὰ Πενθέα ἢ Ὀρφέα λακιστὸν ἐν πέτραισιν· (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 2:14)
  • τῆσ τε βελτίστησ μεσαῖον θυννάδοσ Βυζαντίασ τέμαχοσ ἐν τεύτλου λακιστοῖσ κρύπτεται στεγάσμασιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 67 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. torn

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

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