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νητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νητός νητή νητόν

Structure: νητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ne/w4

Sense

  1. heaped, piled up

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

  • πολλάκισ ἔχοντι κατὰ χώραν ἐν τῇ Ὁμηρικῇ πείσῃ μένοντα τὸν θυμόν, ἀλλὰ τραχύτερον ὑπὸ μισοπονηρίασ, εἰκόσ ἐστι πραοτέρουσ ἡμᾶσ φανῆναι, καθάπερ ἐν διαγραμμάτων μεταβολαῖσ νῆταί τινεσ πρὸσ ἑτέρασ νήτασ τάξιν ὑπάτων λαμβάνουσιν. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 1 13:1)
  • ἔρωτι μὲν γὰρ οὐδ’ αὐτῷ πολλάκισ ἔχοντι κατὰ χώραν ἐν τῇ Ὁμηρικῇ πείσῃ μένοντα τὸν θυμόν, ἀλλὰ τραχύτερον ὑπὸ μισοπονηρίασ, εἰκόσ ἐστι πραοτέρουσ ἡμᾶσ φανῆναι, καθάπερ ἐν διαγραμμάτων μεταβολαῖσ νῆταί τινεσ πρὸσ ἑτέρασ νήτασ τάξιν ὑπάτων λαμβάνουσιν. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 1 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. heaped

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

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