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λιθοποιός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: lithopoios

Principal Part: λιθοποιός λιθοποιόν

Structure: λιθοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ποιέω

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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