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μέσακτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέσακτος μέσακτον

Structure: μεσακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)kth/

Sense

  1. between shores, in mid-sea

Examples

  • σιτουμένην δύστηνον ἀθλίαν φάβα, μέσακτα πλευρὰ πρὸσ πτύοισ πεπλεγμένην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. between shores

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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