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ὀξυωπής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀξυωπής ὀξυωπές

Structure: ὀξυωπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: w)/y

Sense

  1. sharp-sighted

Examples

  • "τῶν δ’ ἐν τῇ καλῇ Ῥώμῃ καλλιστρουθίων καλουμένων σύκων εἰ ὁ Λυγκεὺσ ἐγεύσατο ὥσπερ ἐγώ, ὀξυωπέστεροσ ἂν ἐγεγόνει παρὰ πολὺ τοῦ ὁμωνύμου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 635)

Synonyms

  1. sharp-sighted

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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