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μονόλιθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μονόλιθος μονόλιθη μονόλιθον

Structure: μονολιθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. made out of one stone

Examples

  • τὸ δὲ θαυμαστόν, ὅτι αἱ στέγαι τῶν οἴκων ἑκάστου μονόλιθοι, καὶ τῶν κρυπτῶν τὰ πλάτη μονολίθοισ ὡσαύτωσ ἐστέγασται πλαξὶν ὑπερβαλλούσαισ τὸ μέγεθοσ, ξύλων οὐδαμοῦ καταμεμιγμένων οὐδ’ ἄλλησ ὕλησ οὐδεμιᾶσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 73:8)

Synonyms

  1. made out of one stone

Related

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

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