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πάνδυρτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάνδυρτος πάνδυρτον

Structure: πανδυρτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic for pano/durtos

Sense

  1. all-lamentable, all-plaintive

Examples

  • καὶ σοῦ μέν, μᾶτερ, δυστάνου κλαίω πανδύρτοισ θρήνοισ, τὸν ἐμὸν δὲ βίον λώβαν λύμαν τ’ οὐ μετακλαίομαι, ἀλλὰ θανεῖν μοι ξυντυχία κρείσσων ἐκύρησεν. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, antistrophe9)

Synonyms

  1. all-lamentable

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

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