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μονόκωλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μονόκωλος μονόκωλη μονόκωλον

Structure: μονοκωλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kw=lon

Sense

  1. with but one leg, of one story, consisting of one clause, of one kind, one-sided.

Examples

  • πρῶτον μὲν δὴ κατὰ τοῦτο διήλλαξε τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ συγγραφέων, λέγω δὲ κατὰ τὸ λαβεῖν ὑπόθεσιν μήτε μονόκωλον παντάπασι μήτ’ εἰσ πολλὰ μεμερισμένην καὶ ἀσυνάρτητα κεφάλαια· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 6 1:1)
  • βούλομαι δ’ , ἑώσ ἔτι μέμνημαι τῆσ παιδείασ, ὡσ ἔχω δόξησ περὶ αὐτῆσ εἰπεῖν, ὅτι τὸν μονόκωλον λόγον πρῶτον μὲν ἀμουσίασ οὐ μικρὸν ποιοῦμαι τεκμήριον· (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 9 19:4)
  • ἀφελῆ δὲ λέγω τὴν μονόκωλον. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 9 5:3)
  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἔχει τὴν φύσιν μονόκωλον, τὰ δὲ εὖ κέκραται πρὸσ ἀμφοτέρασ τὰσ δυνάμεισ ταύτασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 109:4)

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

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