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ναυσιπέρατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ναυσιπέρατος ναυσιπέρατη ναυσιπέρατον

Structure: ναυσιπερατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = nausi/poros

Sense

  1. navigable, to be crossed by a ferry

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὃ δὲ μάλιστα θαυμάσειεν ἄν τισ, οὐκ ἀποκλείεται τοῦ στόματοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ θαλαττίασ θινὸσ ἐμφραττόμενοσ, ὃ πάσχουσι πολλοὶ καὶ τῶν μεγάλων ποταμῶν, οὐδ’ εἰσ ἕλη καὶ τέλματα πλανώμενοσ ἄλλοτε ἄλλῃ προκαταναλίσκεται πρὶν ἢ τῇ θαλάττῃ συνάψαι τὸ ῥεῖθρον, ἀλλὰ ναυσιπέρατόσ ἐστιν ἀεὶ καὶ δι’ ἑνὸσ ἐκδίδωσι τοῦ γνησίου στόματοσ ἀνακόπτων τὰσ πελαγίουσ ῥαχίασ τῆσ θαλάττησ, καίτοι πολὺσ αὐτόθι γίνεται καὶ χαλεπὸσ ὁ πνέων ἀπὸ τῆσ ἑσπέρασ ἄνεμοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 44 4:1)

Similar forms

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

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