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μονόκροτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: monokrotos

Principal Part: μονόκροτος μονόκροτον

Structure: μονοκροτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: κροτέω

Sense

  1. with one bank of oars

Examples

  • διεσκεδασμένων δὲ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, αἱ μὲν τῶν νεῶν δίκροτοι ἦσαν, αἱ δὲ μονόκροτοι, αἱ δὲ παντελῶς κεναί: (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 33:4)
  • 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 δεκαναΐαν 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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