Hellas Alive Dictionary - πεντασπιθαμος

Ancient Greek Dictionary

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεντασπίθαμος πεντασπίθαμον

Structure: πεντασπιθαμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

First/Second declension

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	πεντασπίθαμος πεντασπιθάμου	πεντασπιθαμώτερος πεντασπιθαμωτέρου	πεντασπιθαμώτατος πεντασπιθαμωτάτου
Adverb	πεντασπιθάμως	πεντασπιθαμώτερον	πεντασπιθαμώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

ὑπερεκπίπτων δ’ ἐπὶ τὸ μυθῶδεσ πεντασπιθάμουσ ἀνθρώπουσ λέγει καὶ τρισπιθάμουσ, ὧν τινὰσ ἀμύκτηρασ, ἀναπνοὰσ ἔχοντασ μόνον δύο ὑπὲρ τοῦ στόματοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 114:1)

five spans long or broad
- τετραπάλαστος (four spans long or broad)
- ἰσοπάλαιστος (a span long)
- πλεθριαῖος (broad or long)
- τρισπίθαμος (three spans long)

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

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