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ὀδοντοφυής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀδοντοφυής ὀδοντοφυές

Structure: ὀδοντοφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fuo/mai

Sense

  1. sprung from the dragon's teeth

Examples

  • ἔτεκεσ, ὦ Γαῖ’, ἔτεκέσ ποτε, βάρβαρον ὡσ ἀκοὰν ἐδάην ἐδάην ποτ’ ἐν οἴκοισ, τὰν ἀπὸ θηροτρόφου φοινικολόφοιο δράκοντοσ γένναν ὀδοντοφυῆ, Θήβαισ κάλλιστον ὄνειδοσ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, epode1)

Synonyms

  1. sprung from the dragon's teeth

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

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