Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

παραμηρίδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραμηρίδιος παραμηρίδιον

Structure: παραμηριδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mhro/s

Sense

  1. along the thighs;, armour for the thighs, cuisses

Examples

  • ταῦτα γὰρ ἅμα καὶ τῷ ἀναβάτῃ παραμηρίδια γίγνεται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 12 10:2)
  • τὰ δ’ αὐτὰ ταῦτα παραμηρίδια ἦν καὶ τῷ ἀνδρί· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 3:3)

Related

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

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