Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

λύσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύσιμος λύσιμον

Structure: λυσιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. able to loose or relieve
  2. that can be redeemed, redeemable

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πέραν τῆσ πόλεωσ διάγοντοσ διὰ τὰ λύσιμα τῶν νόμων ὑπομνηστικὸν πεμφθὲν πρὸσ Παῦλον Σιλεντιάριον ἐνθάδε μὲν χλοάουσα τεθηλότι βῶλοσ ὀράμνῳ φυλλάδοσ εὐκάρπου πᾶσαν ἔδειξε χάριν ἐνθάδε δὲ κλάζουσιν ὑπὸ σκιεραῖσ κυπαρίσσοισ ὄρνιθεσ δροσερῶν μητέρεσ ὀρταλίχων καὶ λιγυρὸν βομβεῦσιν ἀκανθίδεσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2921)
  • κείσθω μέντοι καθάπερ ἐνέχυρα λύσιμα ἐκ τῆσ ἄλλησ πολιτείασ, ἐὰν ἢ τοὺσ θέντασ ἡμᾶσ ἢ καὶ τοὺσ θεμένουσ ὑμᾶσ μηδαμῶσ φιλοφρονῆται. (Plato, Laws, book 7 203:4)
  • τέλεα δέ πωσ πελόμενά μοι λύσιμά τ’ ἄχιμά τ’ ἔπιδε, πάτερ, βίαια μὴ φαιδρῶσ ὁρῶν ὄμμασιν ἐνδίκοισ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 32)

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

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