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ὁλοσφύρητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁλοσφύρητος ὁλοσφύρητη ὁλοσφύρητον

Structure: ὁλοσφυρητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sfu=ra

Sense

  1. made of solid beaten metal

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

  • ὡσ πῦρ καὶ λίβανοσ ἐπὶ πυρίου, ὡσ σκεῦοσ χρυσίου ὁλοσφύρητον κεκοσμημένον παντὶ λίθῳ πολυτελεῖ, (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 50:9)
  • εἰσ κλέπτασ τὰν ἀναδυομέναν ἀπὸ ματέροσ ἄρτι θαλάσσασ Κύπριν ὅλην χρυσῆν ἐχθὲσ ἔκλεψε Δίων καὶ χερὶ προσκατέσυρεν ὁλοσφύρητον Ἄδωνιν, καὶ τὸ παρεστηκὸσ μικρὸν Ἐρωτάριον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1741)
  • λαμβάνει δὲ καὶ δοκὸν ὁλοσφύρητον χρυσῆν ἐκ μνῶν τριακοσίων πεποιημένην· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 14 138:1)

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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