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νεόστροφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεόστροφος νεόστροφον

Structure: νεοστροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: stre/fw

Sense

  1. newly twisted

Examples

  • ὢ πόποι ἦ δὴ πάγχυ μάχησ ἐπὶ μήδεα κείρει δαίμων ἡμετέρησ, ὅ τέ μοι βιὸν ἔκβαλε χειρόσ, νευρὴν δ’ ἐξέρρηξε νεόστροφον, ἣν ἐνέδησα πρώϊον, ὄφρ’ ἀνέχοιτο θαμὰ θρῴσκοντασ ὀϊστούσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 15 49:5)

Synonyms

  1. newly twisted

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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