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λεωφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεωφόρος λεωφόρον

Structure: λεωφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: attic for laofo/ros.

Sense

Examples

  • ἡ δὲ ἐσ Ἄργοσ ἐκ Τεγέασ ὀχήματι ἐπιτηδειοτάτη καὶ τὰ μάλιστά ἐστι λεωφόροσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 54 9:1)
  • ἡ δὲ λεωφόροσ αὐτόθεν ἡ ἐσ Δελφοὺσ καὶ προσάντησ γίνεται μᾶλλον καὶ ἀνδρὶ εὐζώνῳ χαλεπωτέρα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 10:1)
  • ἐσ Ἄβασ δὲ ἀφικέσθαι καὶ ἐσ Υἅμπολιν ἔστι μὲν καὶ ἐξ Ἐλατείασ ὀρεινὴν ὁδὸν ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ Ἐλατέων ἄστεωσ, ἡ δὲ ἐπὶ Ὀποῦντα λεωφόροσ ἡ ἐξ Ὀρχομενοῦ καὶ ἐσ ταύτασ φέρει τὰσ πόλεισ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 2:1)

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

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