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μονόδροπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μονόδροπος μονόδροπον

Structure: μονοδροπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dre/pw

Sense

  1. plucked from one stem, cut from one block

Examples

  • τό σφ’ ἔχει κυπαρίσσινον μέλαθρον ἀμφ’ ἀνδριάντι σχεδόν, Κρῆτεσ ὃν τοξοφόροι τέγεϊ Παρνασσίῳ καθέσσαντο μονόδροπον φυτόν. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 5 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. plucked from one stem

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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