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παραμήκης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραμήκης παραμήκες

Structure: παραμηκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mh=kos

Sense

  1. oblong or oval
  2. extending parallel to

Examples

  • κύκλου παραμηκεστέρου καὶ οὐκ ἐσ τὸ ἀκριβέστατον περιφεροῦσ εἰσιν ἥμισυ, πεποίηται δὲ ὡσ καὶ τοὺσ δακτύλουσ τῶν χειρῶν διιέναι καθάπερ δι’ ὀχάνων ἀσπίδοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. extending parallel to

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

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