Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

παλιρρόθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παλιρρόθιος παλιρρόθιᾱ παλιρρόθιον

Structure: παλιρροθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. back-rushing, refluent

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οὕτωσ μὲν Θήρωνα τὸ δεύτερον ἀμφεκάλυψεν οὐλομένησ πενίησ κῦμα παλιρρόθιον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 367 1:3)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν ὣσ ὑπάλυξε, παλιρρόθιον δέ μιν αὖτισ πλῆξεν ἐπεσσύμενον, τηλοῦ δέ μιν ἔμβαλε πόντῳ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 45:4)
  • τὴν δ’ αἶψ’ ἤπειρόνδε παλιρρόθιον φέρε κῦμα, πλημυρὶσ ἐκ πόντοιο, θέμωσε δὲ χέρσον ἱκέσθαι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 49:2)

Synonyms

  1. back-rushing

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

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