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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

  • τὴν ὀροφήν τε πᾶσαν ἐπὶ πλάτοσ δυοῖν ὀργυιῶν ὑπάρχειν μονόλιθον, ἀστέρασ ἐν κυανῷ καταπεποικιλμένην· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 47 2:3)
  • εἶναι δὲ καὶ ἄλλην εἰκόνα τῆσ μητρὸσ αὐτοῦ καθ’ αὑτὴν πηχῶν εἴκοσι μονόλιθον, ἔχουσαν δὲ τρεῖσ βασιλείασ ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ, ἃσ διασημαίνειν ὅτι καὶ θυγάτηρ καὶ γυνὴ καὶ μήτηρ βασιλέωσ ὑπῆρξε. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 47 5:1)

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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