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πάγχρηστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάγχρηστος πάγχρηστον

Structure: παγχρηστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. good for all work

Examples

  • πάγχρηστον ἄγγοσ ἔσται, κρατὴρ κακῶν, τριπτὴρ δικῶν, φαίνειν ὑπευθύνουσ λυχνοῦχοσ καὶ κύλιξ ‐ καὶ πράγματ’ ἐγκυκᾶσθαι. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, strophe 14)
  • ἢ ποῖον ἄλλο κτῆμα οὕτω πάγχρηστον; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 4 6:4)

Similar forms

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

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