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μεσοποτάμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσοποτάμιος μεσοποτάμιᾱ μεσοποτάμιον

Structure: μεσοποταμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. between rivers, between two rivers, Mesopotamia

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • περὶ δὲ τοῦ βοσμόρου φησὶν Ὀνησίκριτοσ διότι σῖτόσ ἐστι μικρότεροσ τοῦ πυροῦ, γεννᾶται δ’ ἐν ταῖσ μεσοποταμίαισ, φρύγεται δ’ ἐπὰν ἀλοηθῇ, προομνύντων μὴ ἀποίσειν ἄπυρον ἐκ τῆσ ἅλω τοῦ μὴ ἐξάγεσθαι σπέρμα. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 36:14)

Synonyms

  1. between rivers

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

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