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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

  • πρόδοτοσ δὲ μόνα σαλεύει Ἠλέκτρα, τὸν ἀεὶ πατρὸσ δειλαία στενάχουσ’, ὅπωσ ἁ πάνδυρτοσ ἀηδών, οὔτε τι τοῦ θανεῖν προμηθὴσ τό τε μὴ βλέπειν ἑτοίμα, διδύμαν ἑλοῦσ’ Ἐρινύν· (Sophocles, choral, antistrophe 12)

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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