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πάμμηνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάμμηνος πάμμηνον

Structure: παμμην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mh/n

Sense

  1. through all months, the live-long year

Examples

  • κἀγὼ τοῦδ’ ἴστωρ, ὑπερίστωρ, πανσύρτῳ παμμήνῳ πολλῶν δεινῶν στυγνῶν τ’ αἰῶνι. (Sophocles, choral, strophe 22)
  • "δεῦρο δὴ θεῶ καὶ τῆσ σελήνησ, ὅτε πάμμηνόσ ἐστι καὶ μάλιστα τὴν ἰδέαν ἔναρθρον τοῦ προσώπου βαθύτητι τῆσ σκιᾶσ ἀποδίδωσι, τὸ μέγιστον ἀπέχοντα διάστημα τὸν ἥλιον ἡ γὰρ ἀπόστασισ τοῦ φωτὸσ αὕτη τὴν σκιὰν μεγάλην, οὐ τὰ μεγέθη τῶν ὑπὲρ τὴν σελήνην ἀνωμαλιῶν , πεποίηκε. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 22 3:4)

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

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