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νευροσπαδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νευροσπαδής νευροσπαδές

Structure: νευροσπαδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: neu=ron II, spa/w

Sense

  1. drawn by the string, drawn and just ready to fly

Examples

  • πρὸσ δὲ τοῦθ’, ὅ μοι βάλοι νευροσπαδὴσ ἄτρακτοσ, αὐτὸσ ἂν τάλασ εἰλυόμην, δύστηνον ἐξέλκων πόδα, πρὸσ τοῦτ’ ἄν· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. drawn by the string

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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