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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

  • εἰσὶ γὰρ ἀντίθετοι καὶ παρόμοιοι καὶ πάρισοι καὶ οἱ παραπλήσιοι τούτοισ, ἐξ ὧν ἡ πανηγυρικὴ διάλεκτοσ ἀποτελεῖται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2355)
  • τῶν γὰρ φιαλῶν οἱ ὀμφαλοὶ καὶ τῶν βαλανείων οἱ θόλοι παρόμοιοι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 1042)
  • παρόμοιοι δέ, ὅτι ἄμφω θαρραλέοι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 122:2)
  • κατὰ τύχην δέ τινα καὶ οἱ τοῦ Φαρναβάζου ἱππεῖσ οἱ περὶ Ῥαθίνην καὶ Βαγαῖον τὸν νόθον ἀδελφόν, ὄντεσ παρόμοιοι τοῖσ Ἕλλησι τὸν ἀριθμόν, πεμφθέντεσ ὑπὸ Φαρναβάζου ἤλαυνον καὶ οὗτοι ἐπὶ τὸν αὐτὸν τοῦτον λόφον. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 17:3)

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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