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νησοειδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νησοειδής νησοειδές

Structure: νησοειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. like an island

Examples

  • ἐνταῦθα δὴ ὄροσ ἐστὶ τῶν Ἰβήρων τῶν καλουμένων Βαστητανῶν, οὓσ καὶ Βαστούλουσ καλοῦσιν, ἡ Κάλπη, τῇ περιοχῇ μὲν οὐ μέγα τῷ δ’ ὕψει μέγα καὶ ὄρθιον ὥστε πόρρωθεν νησοειδὲσ φαίνεσθαι. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 1 14:2)

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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