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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

  • τὸ βέλτερον κακοῦ καὶ τὸ δίμοιρον αἰνῶ, καὶ δίκᾳ δίκασ ἕπε‐ σθαι, ξὺν εὐχαῖσ ἐμαῖσ, λυτηρίοισ μαχαναῖσ θεοῦ πάρα. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 42)

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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