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λιμηρός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιμηρός λιμηρή λιμηρόν

Structure: λιμηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: limh/n

Sense

  1. furnished with a good harbour

Examples

  • κατὰ δὲ τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἐκ Βοιῶν ἐσ Ἐπίδαυρον τὴν Λιμηρὰν ἄγουσαν Ἀρτέμιδοσ ἱερόν ἐστιν ἐν τῇ Ἐπιδαυρίων Λιμνάτιδοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 16:1)
  • Ἀπολλόδωροσ δὲ Κυθήρων πλησίον ἱστορεῖ ταύτην, εὐλίμενον δὲ οὖσαν βραχέωσ καὶ ἐπιτετμημένωσ λιμηρὰν εἰρῆσθαι ὡσ ἂν λιμενηράν, μεταβεβληκέναι δὲ τοὔνομα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. furnished with a good harbour

Derived

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

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