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νεκροδέγμων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεκροδέγμων νεκροδέγμον

Structure: νεκροδεγμων (Stem)

Etym.: de/xomai

Sense

  1. receiving the dead

Examples

  • εἰ γάρ μ’ ὑπὸ γῆν νέρθεν θ’ Αἵδου τοῦ νεκροδέγμονοσ εἰσ ἀπέρατον Τάρταρον ἧκεν, δεσμοῖσ ἀλύτοισ ἀγρίωσ πελάσασ, ὡσ μήτε θεὸσ μήτε τισ ἄλλοσ τοῖσδ’ ἐπεγήθει. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, anapests1)

Synonyms

  1. receiving the dead

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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