Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὀξυόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξυόεις ὀξυόεσσα ὀξυόεν

Structure: ὀξυοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)cu/s

Sense

  1. sharp-pointed

Examples

  • καὶ ἔγχεα ὀξυόεντα τὰ ἐξ ὀξύασ τοῦ δένδρου ὡσ καὶ Ἀρχίλοχοσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown185)
  • τὼ δ’ ἄρ’ ἀναί̈ξαντ’ Ὀδυσεὺσ καὶ φαίδιμοσ υἱὸσ ἐσφόρεον κόρυθάσ τε καὶ ἀσπίδασ ὀμφαλοέσσασ ἔγχεά τ’ ὀξυόεντα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 7:3)
  • τὼ μὲν δὴ χεῖράσ τε καὶ ἔγχεα ὀξυόεντα ἀντίον ἀλλήλων ἐχέτην μεμαῶτε μάχεσθαι· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 58:5)

Synonyms

  1. sharp-pointed

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

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