Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λυτήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυτήριος λυτήριον

Structure: λυτηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lu/w

Sense

  1. loosing, releasing, delivering, deliverer
  2. recompense

Examples

  • ἰὼ φίλοι δαίμονεσ, λυτήριοί <τ’> ἀμφιβάντεσ πόλιν, δείξαθ’ ὡσ φιλοπόλεισ, μέλεσθέ θ’ ἱερῶν δημίων, μελόμενοι δ’ ἀρήξατε· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. loosing

  2. recompense

Related

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

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