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παλίνσκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλίνσκιος

Structure: παλινσκι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. shaded over again, thick-shaded

Examples

  • κατ’ οἶκον ἐστρωφᾶτο μισητὸσ βάβαξ παλίνσκιον· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 61)
  • τὸ δ’ αἴτιον εἰκάζουσιν ὅτι τοῖσ μὲν παλίνσκιόν ἐστι τὸ χωρίον ὥστ’ ἐνδρόσουσ ὄντασ μὴ διαστέλλειν τοὺσ ὑμένασ, τοὺσ δ’ ἡλιαζομένουσ ξηροὺσ καὶ κερατώδεισ ἔχειν ὥστ’ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν εὐφυῶσ ἐκπέμπεσθαι τὸν φθόγγον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 18:3)

Synonyms

  1. shaded over again

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

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