Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

παλινδρομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλινδρομία

Structure: παλινδρομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a running back or backwards

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὤλετο δ’ ἄν που λιμώσσων, εἰ μὴ στέρξε παλινδρομίαν· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3073)

Synonyms

  1. a running back or backwards

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

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