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

  • καταχρώμενοσ δὴ τούτῳ περὶ μὲν τὸν ἐγκέφαλον αὐτοῦ σφαῖραν περιετόρνευσεν ὀστεί̈νην, ταύτῃ δὲ στενὴν διέξοδον κατελείπετο· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 368:4)
  • τὴν δ’ αὖ κεφαλὴν οὔτε μόνον ὀστεί̈νην ψιλὴν δυνατὸν ἐᾶν ἦν διὰ τὴν ἐν ταῖσ ὡρ́αισ ἐφ’ ἑκάτερον ὑπερβολήν, οὔτ’ αὖ συσκιασθεῖσαν κωφὴν καὶ ἀναίσθητον διὰ τὸν τῶν σαρκῶν ὄχλον περιιδεῖν γιγνομένην· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 380:2)

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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