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λιμνώδης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιμνώδης λιμνώδες

Structure: λιμνωδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. like a marsh, marshy, the marshy ground

Examples

  • "εἶναι δὲ τῆσ θαλάσσησ πῆ μὲν πολὺ βάθοσ κατὰ νότον, μάλιστα δ’ ἀραιὰ τενάγη καὶ βραχέα, πολλαχῆ δὲ καὶ ὑπερχεῖσθαι καὶ ἀπολείπειν αὖθισ οὐ μεγάλασ ἐκβολὰσ λαμβάνουσαν, καὶ τῆσ χρόασ τὸ μὲν ἄκρατον καὶ πελάγιον, τὸ δ’ οὐ καθαρὸν ἀλλὰ συγκεχυμένον καὶ λιμνῶδεσ. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 228)
  • οἰόνται γὰρ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἕλειον καὶ λιμνῶδεσ εἶναι ζῷον, ἀπό τε τῆσ λειότητοσ τεκμαιρόμενοι καὶ τῆσ φυσικῆσ ποιότητοσ, ἔτι δὲ τοῦ προσδεῖσθαι τροφῆσ τῆσ ὑγρᾶσ μᾶλλον ἢ τῆσ ξηρᾶσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 43 2:3)
  • οὗτοι οὖν διαβαίνουσιν ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ διανηχόμενοι ὧδε τὸ λιμνῶδεσ τοῦ ποταμοῦ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 12:1)

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

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