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παππῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παππῷος παππῷη παππῷον

Structure: παππῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or from one's grand-fathers

Examples

  • καὶ προσήκει μοι καθάπερ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ τοῖσ διαδεχομένοισ τὰ παππῷα, μὴ μόνον τῶν χρημάτων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆσ βασιλείασ αὐτοῦ κληρονομεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 31 1:6)
  • ἀλλὰ νὴ Δία παππῴα σοι καὶ πατρῴα δόξ’ ὑπάρχει, ἣν αἰσχρόν ἐστιν ἐν σοὶ καταλῦσαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 82:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or from one's grand-fathers

Related

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

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