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μονόκροτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μονόκροτος μονόκροτον

Structure: μονοκροτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: krote/w

Sense

  1. with one bank of oars

Examples

  • καὶ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀκτίου Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἐνταῦθά ἐστι πλησίον τοῦ στόματοσ, λόφοσ τισ ἐφ’ ᾧ ὁ νεώσ, καὶ ὑπ’ αὐτῷ πεδίον ἄλσοσ ἔχον καὶ νεώρια, ἐν οἷσ ἀνέθηκε Καῖσαρ τὴν δεκαναί̈αν ἀκροθίνιον, ἀπὸ μονοκρότου μέχρι δεκήρουσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 7 12:4)

Synonyms

  1. with one bank of oars

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

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