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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 γὰρ ἄνδρασ ἐσφέρω, τοῖσ δὲ δυστήνοισ γέρουσιν οὐ μέτεσθ’ ὑμῖν, ἐπεὶ τὸν ἔρανον τὸν λεγόμενον παππῷον ἐκ τῶν Μηδικῶν εἶτ’ ἀναλώσαντεσ οὐκ ἀντεσφέρετε τὰσ ἐσφοράσ, ἀλλ’ ὑφ’ ὑμῶν διαλυθῆναι προσέτι κινδυνεύομεν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, trochees4)
  • ἡμῖν εἰσὶν ὑεῖσ οὑτοιί, ὅδε μὲν τοῦδε, πάππου ἔχων ὄνομα Θουκυδίδησ, ἐμὸσ δὲ αὖ ὅδε ‐ παππῷον δὲ καὶ οὗτοσ ὄνομ’ ἔχει τοὐμοῦ πατρόσ· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 5:1)

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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