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πάραυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάραυλος πάραυλον

Structure: παραυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: au)lh/

Sense

  1. dwelling beside, on the borders, close at hand

Examples

  • μνημονεύει αὐτῶν καὶ Σοφοκλῆσ ἐν Ποιμέσιν ἔνθ’ ἡ πάροικοσ πηλαμὺσ χειμάζεται, πάραυλοσ Ἑλλησποντίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1093)
  • τίνοσ βοὴ πάραυλοσ ἐξέβη νάπουσ; (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 14)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling beside

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

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