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ὀπίσθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀπίσθιος ὀπίσθιᾱ ὀπίσθιον

Structure: ὀπισθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)/pisqen

Sense

  1. hinder, belonging to the hinder part, the hind-

Examples

  • Ὀστέων φύσισ‧ δακτύλων μὲν ἁπλᾶ καὶ ὀστέα καὶ ἄρθρα‧ χειρὸσ δὲ καὶ ποδὸσ πουλλὰ, ἄλλα ἀλλοίωσ συνηρθρωμένα‧ μέγιστα δὲ τὰ ἀνωτάτω‧ πτέρνησ δὲ ἓν οἱο͂ν ἔξω φαίνεται, πρὸσ δὲ αὐτὴν οἱ ὀπίσθιοι τένοντεσ τείνουσιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 1.1)

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

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