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μεσόμφαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσόμφαλος μεσόμφαλον

Structure: μεσομφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. in mid-navel, central

Examples

  • φεῦ μόχθων, οἱών, ὦ τάλασ, ὀρεχθεὶσ ἔρρεισ, τρίποδοσ ἄπο φάτιν, ἃν ὁ Φοῖβοσ ἔλακε, δε‐ ξάμενοσ ἀνὰ δάπεδον, ἵνα μεσόμφαλοι λέγονται μυχοί. (Euripides, choral, strophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. in mid-navel

Related

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

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