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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

  • τούτου μὲν δὴ πρώτου χάριν, ὥσπερ ἔφην, ἐκεῖνα ἠναγκάσθην προειπεῖν, ἔπειτα, ἵνα μοι μὴ μονόκωλοσ ᾖ μηδὲ αὐστηρὸσ ὁ λόγοσ, ἀλλ’ ἔχῃ τινὰσ εὐπαιδεύτουσ διαγωγάσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 42 1:4)

Related

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

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