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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

  • ὁρᾷσ δ’ Ἀπόλλων’, ὃσ μεσομφάλουσ ἕδρασ ναίων βροτοῖσι στόμα νέμει σαφέστατον, ᾧ πειθόμεσθα πάνθ’ ὅσ’ ἂν κεῖνοσ λέγῃ· (Euripides, episode, iambic 14:1)
  • ἴτ’ ἐκφορεῖτε, παρθένοι, κύπελλα καὶ μεσομφάλουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 104 2:3)

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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