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παρόμοιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρόμοιος παρόμοιον

Structure: παρομοι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. much like, nearly like, closely resembling
  2. nearly equal

Examples

  • "ὁ ὦτόσ ἐστι μὲν παρόμοιοσ τῇ γλαυκί, οὔκ ἐστι δὲ νυκτερινόσ, ἔχει τε περὶ τὰ ὦτα πτερύγια, διὸ καὶ ὦτοσ καλεῖται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 44 2:4)
  • ἔστι δέ, εἰ τῇ γραφῇ παρόμοιοσ, τοσόσδε καὶ τοιόσδε· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 73 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. much like

  2. nearly equal

Related

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

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