Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὀστέϊνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀστέϊνος ὀστέϊνη ὀστέϊνον

Structure: ὀστεϊν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. made of bone, of bone

Examples

  • ἐπὶ μὲν τοῖσ δόρασιν αἰχμὰσ ὀστεί̈νασ ἀντὶ σιδήρου φοροῦσι, τόξα τε κράνινα καὶ ὀιστοὺσ καὶ ὀστεί̈νασ ἀκίδασ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ὀιστοῖσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 8:6)

Synonyms

  1. made of bone

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

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