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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

  • λαβοῦσα πλήρη χρυσέαν μεσόμφαλον φιάλην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 104 3:1)
  • καὶ νῦν ὁρᾶτέ μ’, ὡσ παρεσκευασμένοσ ξὺν τῷδε θαλλῷ καὶ στέφει προσίξομαι μεσόμφαλόν θ’ ἵδρυμα, Λοξίου πέδον, πυρόσ τε φέγγοσ ἄφθιτον κεκλημένον, φεύγων τόδ’ αἷμα κοινόν· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 3:1)

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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