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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

  • Τὸ γὰρ ὀστέον τοῦτο οὐ σμικρόν ἐστι, καὶ ὑπερέχει μὲν ὑπὸ τὴν ἰθυωρίην τῆσ κνήμησ, κοινωνέει δὲ φλεψὶ καὶ νεύροισιν ἐπικαίροισιν‧ ὁ τένων δὲ ὁ ὀπίσθιοσ τούτῳ προσήρτηται τῷ ὀστέῳ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 11.2)

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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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