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ὀπισθοδάκτυλος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: opisthodaktylos

Principal Part: ὀπισθοδάκτυλος ὀπισθοδάκτυλον

Structure: ὀπισθοδακτυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with back-bent fingers

Examples

  • οὗτοι γάρ εἰσιν οἱ τοὺς ἐνωτοκοίτας καὶ τοὺς ἀστόμους καὶ ἄρρινας ἱστοροῦντες μονοφθάλμους τε καὶ μακροσκελεῖς καὶ ὀπισθοδακτύλους: (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 17:4)

Synonyms

  1. with back-bent fingers

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

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