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παράσειρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παράσειρος παράσειρον

Structure: παρασειρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: seira/

Sense

  1. fastened alongside, harnessed alongside, an outrigger, a yoke-fellow, true associate

Examples

  • τὴν δὲ οὐρὰν οἱ μὲν κύκλῳ περιποίκιλον, οἱ δὲ παράσειρον, καὶ τὰ ὄμματα οἱ μὲν χαροποί, οἱ δ’ ὑπόγλαυκοι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 28:1)

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

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