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λιθοποιός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιθοποιός λιθοποιόν

Structure: λιθοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poie/w

Sense

  1. turning to stone

Examples

  • ἀτὰρ εἰπέ μοι, τίσ ἡ λιθοποιὸσ αὕτη Μέδουσα ἡμῖν ἐστιν καὶ πόθεν, ὡσ καὶ ἡμεῖσ ἴδοιμεν οὐ γάρ, οἶμαι, φθονήσεισ ἡμῖν τῆσ θέασ οὐδὲ ζηλοτυπήσεισ, εἰ μέλλοιμεν πλησίον που καὶ αὐτοὶ παραπεπηγέναι σοι ἰδόντεσ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. turning to stone

Similar forms

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

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