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παχύκνημος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: pachyknēmos

Principal Part: παχύκνημος παχύκνημον

Structure: παχυκνημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: κνήμη

Sense

  1. with stout calves

Examples

  • παρὰ τῷ μὲν γὰρ ποδαγρῶντες καὶ γαστρώδεις καὶ παχύκνημοι καὶ πίονές εἰσιν ἀσελγῶς, παρ ἐμοὶ δ ἰσχνοὶ καὶ σφηκώδεις καὶ τοῖς ἐχθροῖς ἀνιαροί. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:18)

Synonyms

  1. with stout calves

Similar forms

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

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